I had a surprisingly positive middle school English experience. I remember my teacher holding “A Separate Peace” aloft, ...

A heartfelt thank-you to Helen Lewis for her reporting on Lucy Calkins and the most recent phase of the “reading wars.” As a career English teacher whose mother was also a career English teacher, I ...

Bringing fifth-grade volunteers to help first-graders improve their reading has proven a success at Watson Elementary School, ...

Reading ability among young people is declining, and it is the most vulnerable students who are hardest hit, according to ...

Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

John Parent sat in the kindergarten classroom in wonderment as he saw the "science of reading" paying off in October 2023. "They're reading CVC words, three-letter words with consonant-vowel-consonant ...

The cover of "Reading Van Gogh" beside author Elizabeth Barks Cox. (Courtesy of Mercer University Press) Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Elizabeth Barks Cox, author of "Reading Van Gogh: An Amateur ...

If anyone asked you to name the longest English word, would you know the answer? This question, recently posed in a competitive exam, has captured the internet’s attention. Most people are unaware of ...

President George Washington's First Inaugural Address (April 30, 1789) No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the ...