I was looking through the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) this morning and came across an interesting trend. I only went through the years 2003 to 2006, so the time factor is short, but ...
The “science of reading” is making its way onto more governors’ and state legislators’ priority lists as the 2024 legislative session gets underway. In Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, ...
Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...
Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman said she instructs students on atoms, matter and how they “influence the world around us.” But Hackman also has another responsibility: ...
“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...
Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...
Angie Hackman teaches chemistry at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, where all teachers are required to integrate literacy instruction into their classes. Credit: Image provided by ...