Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction ...

The study reveals that the use of the mother tongue as the language of instruction in primary grades contributes largely to reading comprehension in secondary languages, such as Filipino and English, ...

Stephen Gorard receives funding from Economic and Social Research Council, and Department for Education, to conduct work in this general area. All secondary-age school pupils in year eight (aged 12 ...