Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

HOUSTON – Inside a classroom at Black Elementary, the air is steady with the sound of students reading out loud. Some follow English passages. Others work through Spanish. Each child moves at a ...

Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...

A popular diagram for teaching plot structure to middle and high school students looks like a mountain, mapping out exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It’s an apt ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

Callula Killingly received funding from the QUT Early Career Researcher Scheme and the university's Centre for Inclusive Education. Learning to read is a complex process. It requires children to ...

MACON, Ga. — Students at Heard Elementary School in Bibb County are proving that reading can be fun — and rewarding. Those who met their accelerated reader goals this semester got to celebrate with at ...

Approximately two out of every five students in the United States cannot read at a basic level. Literacy rates have been declining for more than a decade, but since the COVID-19 pandemic those rates ...