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.

This multi-stage assignment invites students to reflect on their personal literacy development through storytelling, peer collaboration, and revision. Students describe key literacy events, analyze ...

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 ...

There's a serious literacy problem happening with adults and children alike. Especially in public schools, many students are far behind in their reading levels, and it only seems to be getting worse.

More than once, Tabetha Adkins has heard students say they never read an entire book before attending college, and she has witnessed the challenges many have faced engaging with college reading. “I ...

A UC Berkeley history professor said he has significantly reduced reading assignments in response to student struggles in recent years, cutting 100 pages to about 35.

Why aren’t your students doing the assigned reading? This year, that question has stumped faculty members across higher education. As people who have dedicated large chunks of our lives to books, we ...

Though discussion of a proposal to alter reading period was eclipsed by revelations about the extent of faculty email searches at Tuesday’s faculty meeting, the Committee on Undergraduate Education ...