In a late-session surprise, the Louisiana House has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would bar third graders with reading problems from moving to the fourth grade. Around 4,500 of Louisiana's third ...

This is the first of two stories focusing on teaching Milwaukee students to read. This is part of the By the Book series, which examines reading curriculum, instructional methods and solutions in K-12 ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

A House-passed bill that would bar third graders with reading problems from moving to the fourth grade breezed through the Senate Education Committee on Thursday without objection. The measure, House ...

Source: Aaliyah Williams During this Black History Month, let us attend for a moment to the reading achievement gap, as it affects all of us regardless of race. Here's why. Lack of literacy is linked ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Millions of American students fell far behind in their education during ...

We have a national reading problem in the U.S. The widespread lament over the further decline in children’s reading scores underscores the failure of our country’s public schools, but the predicament ...

We can’t fix reading one budget year at a time. I’ve spent enough time around the Capitol to know this: Most people who serve there really do want to fix problems. They may disagree on how — and, ...

Under No Child Left Behind, America had no strategy for teaching beginning reading that anyone could articulate or achieve. Common Core State Standards can now correct that problem by adopting a ...