Four school districts in major urban areas using the science of reading found while students are grasping basic literacy ...

Recent advances in educational research have underscored the pivotal role of reading comprehension and critical thinking in fostering academic success and lifelong learning. Contemporary studies ...

The MCAT CARS section is designed to assess your ability to analyze and interpret complex texts. It doesn’t test scientific knowledge but instead evaluates how well you can extract meaning, evaluate ...

There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Nearly a half ...

Will there ever be another Harry Potter? Between 1997 and 2007, it seemed like every child (and even their parents) was reading J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy novels about a skinny, bespectacled ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

This research was partially funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF). While this problem has received considerable attention, no clear explanation has emerged. In my recent PhD thesis, I ...