Concerning lessons from cognitive and educational psychology. Last year, various surveys, including reliable indicators, have ...

It can take years for students to acquire enough academic knowledge to make a difference in reading test scores. A new study suggests that standardized reading tests often fail to reflect what ...

Previously in Virginia, the way reading comprehension was taught revealed gaps in learning for minority students and set a small percentage of students into the special education category. Now, ...

A study has found that although there were steep learning losses in reading for elementary school students during the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person learning opportunities helped some of those students ...

Three of Maine’s public universities received failing grades in 2023 for one of the most critical things they do: prepare future educators to teach kids how to read. The National Council on Teacher ...

Tutoring programs that focus on reading comprehension skills may look successful at lower grade levels but end up holding kids back later on. Some are pinning their hopes on tutoring as a way to ...

Daniel Willingham has long been interested in how learning and memory work. But about 15 years ago, the University of Virginia professor of psychology decided to move beyond the study of cognition and ...

Is reading learning? Are the higher cognitive aspects of reading really just learning and concentration? Are the cognitive problems caused by brain injury solely learning issues and not specifically ...

Nancy Butler Songer argues that learning with artificial intelligence is contributing to the erosion of critical thinking ...

When I first met “Juan,” then a 2nd grader, he knew about half of his consonant sounds and none of his vowels. I was a new K-5 special education teacher at the time, now more than a dozen years ago, ...