New students at top universities can face many intimidating challenges. Reading a book isn’t supposed to be one of them.

Read Better Be Better works to give Arizona students a love of reading and learning while giving other students an ...

In a whole-school literacy initiative, students learn metacognitive tools to help with reading and then apply them across content areas.

Updated, July 31: An earlier version of this article said that only six states mention background knowledge in their reading-related ... reach middle and high school, they’re expected to read ...

We are still sending cohorts of kids to middle and high school who have been ... threshold had lower scores across reading subskills—like vocabulary and comprehension—than their peers.

The actual reading fair projects look a little different in every school. Some require decorated poster boards, multi-media ...

A recent study finding dramatic boosts in reading achievement ... haven’t learned about in school. The theory is that the tests are assessing abstract reading comprehension ability, not content ...

Many freshmen college students at places like Stanford and Columbia are struggling to read books from cover to cover.

Moreover, when students read frequently, they also improve their comprehension. Reading for Pleasure Predicts ... a difference that climbs to 30 percent in high school and 34 percent in college ...

Experts say the "tl;dr" approach is impacting kids in more ways than one. According to a recent story in The Atlantic, ...

Using digital devices to read for fun does little to improve the ability of a student to read a text and understand its meaning, new research suggests. For years, research has suggested that print ...

an increase in the percentage of students earning college or career credit while in high school and improved reading scores among elementary school students. About 84% of students this year ...