Lea Michele is attempting to close the chapter on the viral online theory that she can't read. The "Glee" actress appeared on the "Therapuss with Jake Shane" podcast on May 7 where she dispelled the ...

When 19-year-old Aleysha Ortiz told Hartford City Council members in May that the public school system stole her education, she had to memorize her speech. Ortiz, who was a senior at Hartford Public ...

We’ve been having a debate about “book bans” in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper ...

Every month or so, for the past few years, a new dire story has warned of how American children, from elementary school to college age, can no longer read. And every time I read one of these stories, ...

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...

In some inner-city schools, less than half of kids are reading or doing math at grade-level proficiency. Many high school grads can't read their diplomas. As an economist, I would submit that this is ...

The United States faces a nationwide crisis in which our young people are reading at alarmingly low rates, with just 1 in 3 fourth graders meeting proficiency standards. So why are some on the right ...