One of the most fundamental skills students learn in school is still at the forefront of the national education conversation—how kids learn to read. The “science of reading” movement pushed forward in ...

George Orwell once wrote that restating the obvious is the “first duty of intelligent people.” In that vein, allow us to restate the case for what may be literacy instruction’s richest but ...

Reading fluency — the ability to read accurately, automatically and with appropriate expression — remains a critical yet often overlooked component of literacy development. According to the National ...

Teachers College professor Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study For Teaching Reading curriculum was once used in hundreds of New York City public schools and thousands of elementary schools nationwide. A ...

When the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the Nation’s Report Card, were released by the National Center for Education Statistics in June, alarm ...