Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

Fordham Institute and the RAND Corp., asked more than 1,200 K-3 teachers in the fall of 2025 about their perspectives on reading instruction, the practices they use in their classrooms, the training ...

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 ...

University of Central Florida researchers are part of a team that has found that there's no one-size-fits all approach to digital reading and that adjusting font style and size can increase reading ...

Four states—Alabama, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Mississippi—have shown that adopting more rigorous literacy standards and scientific approaches to reading instruction can help reverse the decline ...

If you scroll through the average student's digital textbook or reading, you will probably see multi-colored streaks scattered everywhere. However, new research reveals that excessive highlighting may ...

Washington, December 13, 2023—For years, research showed that print reading, whether for leisure or school, improved developing readers’ ability to comprehend text. However, the explosive use of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Oct 10, 2023, 12:05pm EDT Oct 13, 2023, 02:47pm EDT This article is ...