AS school districts wait for the Legislature to resolve education funding in Washington, it is imperative that we invest all of our resources wisely in ways that expand educational opportunities and ...

JUST recently, reading Janna Malamud Smith’s memoir of her father, novelist Bernard Malamud, I was struck by the way this Brooklyn-born child of poor immigrants who were scarcely able to speak English ...

Called Concepts of Comprehension©, this research-based curriculum, developed by the nonprofit Urban Education Exchange, builds students’ understanding of what they read and helps them to move ...

New York is requiring elementary schools to choose one of three literacy curricula, and the most popular choice fails to build the knowledge that fuels reading ...

Parents do need more information about what is being taught, but not for the reasons behind the current Republican-led push for schools to post curriculum materials online. A recent wave of Republican ...

Pleasantville, NY–November 2009—This January, Weekly Reader introduces an extraordinary new tool for schools—a multimedia reading-comprehension program that combines high-interest, real-world ...