As Milwaukee addresses its literacy struggles, one-on-one tutoring is showing promise at improving students' ability to read.

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

The 74 reports a decline in parents reading to children, linked to past negative experiences and digital distractions, ...

The study reveals that the use of the mother tongue as the language of instruction in primary grades contributes largely to reading comprehension in secondary languages, such as Filipino and English, ...

As a journalism major, most of my classes have consisted of reading new articles or analyses — shorter content and, every once in a while, a scholarly paper. So for about a year or two, I didn’t read ...

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...

Building knowledge beginning in kindergarten can eliminate test-score gaps between lower- and higher-income students, according to a new study. Building students’ general knowledge can lead to ...

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Experts have long known that reading skills develop before the first day of kindergarten, but new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from the Harvard Graduate ...

Reading remains one of the most critical foundations of education, shaping how individuals comprehend information, think ...