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 ...

Learning to read can pose a massive challenge for early learners, even at the best of times. But in this academic year, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified that challenge. It's ...

In 2012, Florida required its 100 lowest-performing elementary schools to add an extra hour to their school day and to spend that hour on reading instruction led by teachers who are highly effective ...

The state of Florida recently mandated the 300 lowest-performing elementary schools add an extra hour of reading instruction each day, the first in the country to do so. But while supporters are ...

Palm Beach County is spending millions of dollars a year for an extra hour of reading classes at its lowest-performing elementary schools, but test scores indicate the classes are doing little to ...

Jaylon Jenkins just started third grade. And every day after school, he does homework with the aunt that is raising him, Antonia Williams. I'm not a tyrant. When he first comes home I normally have– ...