AS school districts wait for the Legislature to resolve education funding in Washington, it is imperative that we invest all of our resources wisely in ways that expand educational opportunities and ...

It seems like an obvious statement: It’s easier for readers to understand a text they already know something about. But this commonsense idea, backed by research, has big implications for reading ...

Schools spend hours every week teaching comprehension skills and strategies in "reading" class, without results. Using those techniques in history, science, and other content-focused classes could ...

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 2016, as a second-year, second-grade teacher, I decided I needed to know more about teaching my students how to read. As I began advanced coursework in the area of literacy instruction, I reflected ...