Faiza Omar, who took Hackman’s class last school year as a junior, learned English as a second language and didn’t receive the foundational reading interventions until high school.

We have programs that are in the reading classes where we could count that [as an ESL class]. … That reading piece, for them, it looks different, but the time is still allotted.

Similarly, Frey feels that the core ingredient in fostering a commitment to reading in her classes is creating a culture around the practice. That starts with professors actively helping students ...

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The reasons why older students struggle with reading can also be more complex and layered than they are for younger children. “There’s no ceiling to learning to read,” Shapiro said.

But Hackman also has another responsibility in class: developing students’ reading skills. For about 20 of the 80 minutes of almost every class, she engages her chemistry students in literacy skills, ...