EdSource · Sexual abuse claims threaten school district budgets, even when not accused Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

It makes sense that for kids to learn, they should be gradually eased into more challenging material. But how gradual is too gradual? In a powerful new book, researcher Tim Shanahan argues that ...

The Florida Department of Education has released the scores for its English language arts assessment, a measure of grade-level reading among the state’s third-graders. In Manatee County, there was a ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Public Schools officials say a “culture of literacy” has led to a higher rate of K-3 students reading at grade level, but literacy rates have still not returned to pre-pandemic ...

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 ...

Concern over a new requirement that third graders read at grade-level to move on to fourth grade has created a "sense of urgency" in at least one north Arkansas elementary school, faculty said. That ...

Timothy E Shanahan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...