School’s out — and summer reading challenges are in. Everywhere from public libraries to bookstores like The King’s English Bookshop and Barnes & Noble to Chuck E. Cheese are kicking off summer ...

To the editor: English is a phonetic language, so as soon as children learn letters and sounds, they can start to write simple messages. Most people go on to write well enough for practical purposes, ...

That was the response from a handful of K-12 teachers—1st grade classroom teachers, high school math teachers, and those in between—to this question posed by Education Week in a recent (unscientific) ...

How to get children reading again has become one of the highly debated questions in education. At the centre of it sits an argument over what young people should be reading at school, with the ...

Learning to read is a major milestone in a child's life, and it takes time and patience for kids to get to the point where they're cruising through books on their own. Given how important reading is ...

Sesame Street characters and children from the Garden of Dreams Foundation celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sesame Street Live on Feb. 4, 2010 in New York City. As a child growing up in a ...

Imagine a world without English majors. In the last decade, the study of English and history in college has fallen by a third. At Columbia University, the share of English majors fell from 10 percent ...

Two groups have aimed to find consensus in one contested area of the ongoing reading wars: what the “science of reading” should look like for English learners. In a statement released in October, The ...

Leading literacy experts agreed that more young California students need to learn how to read, but they couldn’t reach a concensus on how to make it happen. While several participants in EdSource’s ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Angie Hackman teaches chemistry at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, where all teachers are required to integrate literacy instruction into their classes. Credit: Image provided by ...