Balanced Literacy downplays structured phonics, where kids learn by memorizing letters' sounds. Is that why some are struggling to read?

An influential researcher in the science of reading movement is warns schools may be "overteaching" the skill.

Barbara Imrie, a retired English teacher and grandmother, never expected that a few simple words about kindness would reach millions. Imrie, 71, who speaks with a gentle Scottish accent — she was born ...

Jill Biden will publish her second memoir, View from the East Wing, about her tenure as First Lady. It will be released by ...

Two years into his English literature degree at the University of Pittsburgh, sophomore Luke Johnson has noticed something in ...

Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way that radically transforms it. The right work can make a subject that’s never ...

Julian Novitz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy instruction in schools nationwide. After decades of debate over the most effective ...

In Ezekiel Emanuel’s “Eat Your Ice Cream,” the health policy expert and oncologist talks about his “six simple rules” for living longer and better. The wiry and intense 68-year-old is no scolding ...

In classrooms across the country, children are showing progress in reading, yet many students cannot tell you what those words mean, why they matter or how the text connects to their lives. My first ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in ...

I was fortunate to be an educator with Teach for America as the first step in my career. I always loved to read and write, so teaching English language arts was a natural extension of my passion. I ...