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 ...

First-grade teacher Judy Van Geons sat in a rocking chair in her classroom. Her students at Stadley Rough School in Danbury sat cross-legged on the carpet. They were discussing a book they had read ...

Elementary schools across the state are about to get a large wave of new students — the teachers themselves. More than 15,000 Kansas elementary school educators — everybody from teachers to counselors ...

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 ...

Twenty-one employees at Reading Hospital-Tower Health recently completed the hospital’s inaugural English as a Second Language (ESL) course. The one-hour classes were provided in partnership with the ...

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 ...