A final evaluation of the federal Enhanced Reading Opportunities program suggests that extra, explicit reading classes can boost reading skills for struggling adolescents, but the short-lived ...

Biology, literature, calculus, U.S. history—all high school courses, regardless of subject, require a strong grasp of one critical skill: reading. By the time students are in high school, especially ...

From an early age, I have been a social studies nerd. Elementary school lessons on California missions, Civil War battles, besieged presidents and westward expansion thrilled me. So I am sad to learn ...

SPRINGDALE — Rallalyn Kelwan and Steven Arevalo said they avoided reading before taking the new critical reading class at Springdale High School. Springdale, Har-Ber and Bentonville high schools ...

Seventeen-year-old Gail Symanowicz was a bit apprehensive when the first bell rang to change classes at the new Holy Name High School in September 1964. Symanowicz transferred from Reading Catholic ...

Is there a more common lament among college instructors than, “Why won’t students just do the reading?” It’s an important/difficult question. When I wrote last week about the problem of “boredom,” in ...