By Ellen Gelman Imagine being a high school student sitting in a room where everyone around you seems to understand texts ...

This story features Beeline Reader for enhanced readability. Click to turn the feature on or off. Learn more about this technology here. Barbara McAuliffe, an expert in helping struggling readers, has ...

The recent NAEP scores have confirmed a sobering truth: Our schools remain in the grips of a literacy crisis. Across the country, too many children are struggling to read, and too many teachers are ...

Hilary A Smith is co-convenor of the Languages Alliance Aotearoa NZ and president of Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a past president of the Teachers to Speakers of Other Languages ...

Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...

The NAEP results in late 2022 revealed that reading scores fell for both fourth and eighth grade readers as a result of the pandemic. Only 33 percent of fourth graders are reading proficiently, which ...

BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- EPS Learning is proud to announce SPIRE Up, the next generation of our ESSA Level 1 validated reading intervention, SPIRE. Ready for back-to-school 2026 ...

Fridah Gatwiri Kiambati works for the African Population and Health Research Center. The Developing Readers Study, which this article is based was funded by the Gates foundation. Literacy – being able ...