The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...

Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full sentences — forcing professors to start reading to them aloud in class, ...

A little girl stared at a list of test questions in her science class, unable to answer the majority. Resigned, she wrote at the top, “I failed badly” — although she misspelled it, instead writing, “I ...

Is there a college student — or parent — who has not winced at the price of a textbook? Today's digital textbooks are no different. Most now require an access code for a fee or are tied to automatic ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shawn Datchuk, University of Iowa (THE CONVERSATION) Recently, I worked with a group ...

At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading. Or at least their teachers stopped asking them to read the way they once did. We live in the age of the reel, the story, the sample, the ...

A video from a Philadelphia student shows that too many students are not reading at grade level, and too many schools are ...

Recently, I worked with a group of elementary teachers in Iowa to select new reading textbooks and software. They wanted new materials to improve their district’s stagnant reading scores. After ...