Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for not winning every game. I shared that I had two primary goals (and neither was piling up ...

“Leveled reading,” a pedagogical theory that promotes teaching students using books they can already read, is popular in K–12 education. Empirical evidence, however, demonstrates that leveled reading ...

Project 75 is a reading initiative with an ambitious goal: to boost the percentage of third-graders in Jackson who pass the state assessment on the first attempt from 55% to 75%. Cormack presented his ...

After switching its elementary reading curriculum to one aligned with the science of reading, Denver Public Schools is celebrating an increase in the percentage of kindergarten through third grade ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...

Sit in any bookstore or library for enough time, and you’ll hear an adult tell a child, “You can’t read that book — it isn’t at your reading level.” Comments like this have become all too typical as ...

McCarthy-Towne Elementary School is revamping its reading program with a new book system. But teaching children to appreciate literacy, Principal David Krane said, begins at home. “Critical thinking ...

If Americans truly understood the devastating effects our approach to reading instruction has on black and brown children, they would be in the streets demanding change. Recent events have shined a ...

The little turtle can see the grass. The little turtle can see the trees. The little turtle can see the flowers. These are the opening lines to one popular reading program’s leveled books: short, ...

A new study by Gallup on behalf of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy finds that low levels of adult literacy could be costing the U.S. as much $2.2 trillion a year. According to the U.S.