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.

In the perfect world, students would read the texts we carefully curate for them with equal attention and care. In reality, many students struggle with college-level readings, either giving up on ...

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 ...

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 ...