Some parents are having trouble making sense of their kids' reading assignments while schools are closed. The explanation is a deeply entrenched by misguided approach to teaching comprehension.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A school handout meant to be distributed to eighth-grade students as a reading assignment has Houston ISD teachers sounding an alarm. ABC13 is told this isn't the only mistake ...
Henley Nicodin's mom set a strict deadline for her summer reading assignment this year: On July 31 before the stroke of midnight, you will read it cover to cover. No slacking off until the start of ...
A new survey shows that most teachers are still gearing class reading assignments to students’ skill level, rather than--as the common-core standards envision--to their grade level. The report is ...
Princeton University sophomore Prianka Misra has resisted completing anything less than a full read-through of every text she has been assigned, even when an especially massive reading set seems to ...
Built-in screen readers improve the accessibility of texts and can help students achieve success in building higher-level ...
We are part of The Trust Project. It was brought to my attention that a highly controversial book, “ The Bluest Eye,” is being used in Fargo's high school curriculum. In particular, Fargo North High ...
My third grader hates reading and we’d all been looking forward to a respite this summer, when he wouldn’t need to read each night and we wouldn’t need to force him to do so. But we just received the ...