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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPRINGDALE — Rallalyn Kelwan and Steven Arevalo said they avoided reading before taking the new critical reading class at Springdale High School. Springdale, Har-Ber and Bentonville high schools ...

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 ...

Is there a more common lament among college instructors than, “Why won’t students just do the reading?” It’s an important/difficult question. When I wrote last week about the problem of “boredom,” in ...

Hearing impaired Charlie Swinbourne taught himself to lip read and has been perfecting the art for personal use, throughout his life. recently he decided to test his homegrown skills by attending a ...