“Knowledge-building” has become a buzzword in reading instruction. It refers to English/language arts approaches that aim to systematically build students’ understanding of the world—rather than ...

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 ...

First-year high school students climbed to third place in reading comprehension in the latest global aptitude survey, a significant jump from 15th place in the previous survey. Japan also moved up to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Finding affordable educational resources for your child can be a difficult task for any parent. And especially since this spring your child could be held back based on a ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

Japanese students' average reading comprehension score in the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development was 22 ...