As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

In the last few weeks, I’ve seen online posts from teachers bemoaning their students’ lack of enthusiasm for reading. Our international standardized test scores are down again. And then there’s the ...

Teaching a child to decode words is a critical early step in reading instruction. But just because children can read words doesn’t mean they understand them. “Reading comprehension, in its simplest ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

TORONTO – Ontario students in Grades 3 and 6 are making some gains when it comes to reading and writing, but are lagging behind in math in an ongoing trend critics say is concerning. “This should be a ...

Results from the latest P.E.I. student assessments were released Tuesday and they show some areas of improvement and some dips in student achievement. The assessments are written each year by students ...