Contributing columnist Tyra Damm isn't surprised at students graduating high school without the capacity to read whole books. Trends in education have been robbing students of their ability to focus ...

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...

Students in the Mansfield Public Schools celebrated Read Across America with a variety of activities each day. To celebrate, both Mansfield Elementary and Mansfield Middle School featured ...

Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...

Retention by itself is not a solution. It has to be paired with tutoring, intervention and consistent support for the student ...

All computers come with spellcheckers and iPhones autocorrect their users’ texts. But despite those everyday features, formal spelling instruction still pays off, the findings of a new study suggest.

American students’ reading skills have continued to decline since the COVID-19 pandemic, while their math skills have barely improved, according to a report from the Department of Education released ...

Professors across the country have noticed a troubling trend: College students are reading less than ever, and a recent study found many students enter college with challenges completing an entire ...

There are two reasons why I don’t want to look at my phone right now. The first is that as I’m writing this in mid-October, it’s peak hurricane season here in Florida, and that means that whenever ...