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 ...

I had a bad class observation not too long ago. It was near the end of the semester, because the colleague who was doing the observing and I kept having scheduling conflicts. All I had planned was for ...

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 ...

"You can do this," powerful words, indeed. Every day students at Tulare County Library's READ TO SUCCEED hear this encouragement from their volunteer tutors. Students enrolled face a variety of ...

A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and execute the ...