Throughout 2025, Education Week has covered how states and districts are continuing to incorporate new instructional methods ...

Many states have recently enacted laws or rules designed to ensure that teachers are well versed in evidence-based reading instruction. Here are some highlights. Requires districts to provide core ...

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...

“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...

The statistics are well known: only 35 percent of students are reading proficiently by grade 4, and NAEP reading scores are the lowest in decades. Although most students can learn to read, the ...

AbstractCore reading programs provide the curriculum and guide the instruction for many classroom teachers. The purpose of this study was to conduct a curriculum analysis of comprehension instruction ...

Post by Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou & Kristen McMaster, University of Minnesota Making Inferences: The Cornerstone of Reading Comprehension Despite the persistent efforts of researchers, policy makers, ...

American students’ reading scores have stagnated for more than 30 years. What needs to change? Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for ...

To the editor: “English is a phonetic language,” states a letter writer who taught reading — but, I must add, only to a point. Just a brief look at the previous sentence will show numerous exceptions ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...