Twenty-one employees at Reading Hospital-Tower Health recently completed the hospital’s inaugural English as a Second Language (ESL) course. The one-hour classes were provided in partnership with the ...

One of the major shifts in the Common Core State Standards for English/language arts, as educators know by now, is the focus on nonfiction. In elementary school, about half of what students read ...

Biology, literature, calculus, U.S. history—all high school courses, regardless of subject, require a strong grasp of one critical skill: reading. By the time students are in high school, especially ...

(AP) - Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and ...

Chris Stanislawski, 14, poses for a portrait outside of his home in Garden City, N.Y., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. Chris didn’t finish any books in his 8th grade English class, in part because their ...