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Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research and The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University released the third iteration of their Education Recovery Scorecard in February.

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 ...

In spring 2019, the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report revealed that children from families earning less than $35,000 a year had, on average, about 73 books at home, compared with 125 in ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired by the “Mississippi miracle,” other Southern states followed suit. But the ...