Some parents are having trouble making sense of their kids' reading assignments while schools are closed. The explanation is a deeply entrenched by misguided approach to teaching comprehension.

A new survey shows that most teachers are still gearing class reading assignments to students’ skill level, rather than--as the common-core standards envision--to their grade level. The report is ...

More than once, Tabetha Adkins has heard students say they never read an entire book before attending college, and she has witnessed the challenges many have faced engaging with college reading. “I ...

Princeton University sophomore Prianka Misra has resisted completing anything less than a full read-through of every text she has been assigned, even when an especially massive reading set seems to ...

Henley Nicodin's mom set a strict deadline for her summer reading assignment this year: On July 31 before the stroke of midnight, you will read it cover to cover. No slacking off until the start of ...

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...

Reading: Space, opening summary before the table of contents. Reading: The Infinite, opening summary before the table of contents. Topics: Time's relationship to mind. Is time objective? What is time?

My third grader hates reading and we’d all been looking forward to a respite this summer, when he wouldn’t need to read each night and we wouldn’t need to force him to do so. But we just received the ...

I can remember the weeks before starting school at Skidmore College, furiously trying to finish Gregory Howard Williams' memoir, Life on the Color Line. The book had been assigned as our freshman ...

As the pandemic drove a sudden, massive and necessary shift to online education last year, students were forced to access much of their school reading assignments digitally. Turning so heavily to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones famously wrote that he didn’t come to Columbus to play school. He came to play football. However, the most elementary educational concept ...