Education Week

Extra Reading Class Boosts Pupil Skills, but Not Permanently

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 ...
Education Week

When Older Students Can’t Read: How This Middle School Is Tackling Literacy

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 ...
Princeton University

Princeton's Pre-read is by Class of 2019 graduate Jordan Salama, whose senior thesis became a celebrated nonfiction book

This year’s Pre-read will show first-year students how their Princeton journeys can take them far beyond what they ever imagined. “Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena,” traces ...
The Hechinger Report

Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

Angie Hackman teaches chemistry at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, where all teachers are required to integrate literacy instruction into their classes. Credit: Image provided by ...