Schools spend hours every week teaching comprehension skills and strategies in "reading" class, without results. Using those techniques in history, science, and other content-focused classes could ...

As states and districts overhaul the way their schools teach reading, many are banking on one specific professional-learning program to propel this transformation: Language Essentials for Teachers of ...

The hope is it will help more students unlock the code of reading and ultimately open the door to more learning. Watch Operation Education on Mondays and Wednesday at 6 p.m. on WSBT 22 News.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Some teachers—and parents—are confused by conflicting claims about how ...

Welcome to the School Zone, WTOP’s weekly feature about the latest topics and trends in education across the D.C. region. What it is: At a recent briefing discussing test scores from the assessment ...

Alex Quigley is an English teacher and Director of Huntington Research School, York, England. He blogs at www.theconfidentteacher.com and he is the author of ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’, published by ...

Every teacher of struggling readers has experienced the moment when a student says, “I read it, but I didn’t get it.” It can be a bewildering experience. Why don’t they get it? For several decades, ...

Despite its importance, true comprehension instruction is still not widely offered to children in the primary grades. But young children can benefit from explicit comprehension instruction (Meyer & ...