Yahoo

Harvard researcher working to identify students with reading problems at younger ages

A big problem in schools is the troubling number of students who read below their grade level. Nadine Gaab, Ph.D., an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says ...
Tampa Bay Times

Pinellas schools had a reading problem. Here’s how they’re tackling it.

Jeffrey S. Solochek is an education reporter covering K-12 education policy and schools. Reach him at jsolochek@tampabay.com. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times ...
Education Week

Secondary Students Are Struggling With Reading, Too. A Look at the Landscape

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...
The New York Times

Struggling Teenagers Left Out in New Push to Overhaul Reading

Districts like New York are revamping elementary school reading instruction. But the middle and high schoolers who don’t read proficiently are an afterthought. By Troy Closson American public school ...
ITV

Wales’s reading problem – and the data gap behind it

In Wales, no consistent national data are available on how many children can read unfamiliar words at the early stages of learning. Credit: PA The schools watchdog’s latest warnings on literacy in ...