A final evaluation of the federal Enhanced Reading Opportunities program suggests that extra, explicit reading classes can boost reading skills for struggling adolescents, but the short-lived ...

Biology, literature, calculus, U.S. history—all high school courses, regardless of subject, require a strong grasp of one critical skill: reading. By the time students are in high school, especially ...

Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...

From an early age, I have been a social studies nerd. Elementary school lessons on California missions, Civil War battles, besieged presidents and westward expansion thrilled me. So I am sad to learn ...

Research in education rarely draws on the substantial body of scientific evidence on how learning works. That’s a problem for teachers, students—and the rest of us. Researchers and academics focus on ...

Is there a more common lament among college instructors than, “Why won’t students just do the reading?” It’s an important/difficult question. When I wrote last week about the problem of “boredom,” in ...

This teacher isn't sure whether to be angry or disappointed. Not only are teachers tasked with the gargantuan job of educating the next generation, but they're also stuck dealing with the emotional, ...