Reading wasn’t fun for Kathleen Carroll’s eight-year-old son. As a struggling reader, he spent his days “decoding worksheets and...

Elementary schools are dropping homework in favor of reading, reports Greg Toppo in USA Today. There’s “very little correlation between...

“Three of four African-American boys in California classrooms failed to meet reading and writing standards” on state exams, reports Matt...

Stephen L. Carter was a math-science nerd at Ithaca High, when his 10th-grade English teacher, Judith Dickey, taught him to read — read...

Educators are teaching reading wrong, argues Mark Seidenberg, a University of Wisconsin neuroscientist, in Language at the Speed of...

. . .  researchers trained adults to read in a new language, printed in unfamiliar symbols, and then measured their learning with reading...

Banning homework for elementary school kids has divided parents, reports Kyle Spencer in the New York Times. Public School 11, a...

First graders are better readers than they were 12 years ago, according to an Ohio State study, reports USA Today. Students are learning...

Authors and educators talked about the children’s book that influenced you the most at a writing conference, reports Education Week....

Five teen-agers who defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia last year have been sentenced to read one book a month for the 12...

Edutopia’s list of 20 “indispensable” books for high schoolers is “dominated by perennials” like George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four,...

School assignments killed his son’s love of reading, writes Tony on Leading Motivated Learners. Reading logs and summaries became a...