A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, August 23rd. Please scroll down to view. On August 23, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel of experts to discuss ...

Our testing system is based on the idea that reading comprehension can be measured independently of what kids know, but science indicates otherwise. The American education system rests in large part ...

If you’re looking for Jana Beth Francis, the assistant superintendent for teaching and learning in the Daviess County district in Kentucky, you might find her in her car. Over the past few years, ...

The purpose of going to school is to learn, but students may find certain topics difficult to understand if they don't have the necessary background knowledge. The purpose of going to school is to ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In early April ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the print version of the Core Knowledge standards will be given away for free. The foundation will make the standards available for ...

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 ...