The middle of a global pandemic might seem like an odd time to focus on the limitations of science, the very discipline we’re hoping will save us. But when it comes to human behavior and ...

A middle-school teacher in Riverside County, Calif., had students generate keywords from a section of a book, use them to ...

Description: This project aims to integrate readings from Science and Technologies Studies to our undergraduate students to introduce them to foundational theories that can better prepare them to ...

New research from the University of Kansas has found that an intervention based on the science of reading and math effectively helped English learners boost their comprehension, visualize and ...

When we conflate the science of reading with phonics, we dismiss a critical aspect of learning how to read that is also informed by the science of reading: development of language comprehension.

Some educational technology and literacy organizations are optimistic that adding AI to adaptive reading tools might offer the best opportunity yet to tackle that missing reading comprehension piece.

The research, "Constrained Highlighting in a Document Reader Can Improve Reading Comprehension," was published in the Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

A few months back, there was a lot of buzz about a new display technology that promised to greatly increase people's reading speeds. The approach, typified by Spritz, displays words one at a time ...

I became a disciple of E.D. Hirsch, Jr. early in my teaching career for one simple reason. His theories about reading comprehension—and his alone—described precisely what I witnessed every day ...

In reality, reading — especially as a student moves into upper grades — is more dependent upon background knowledge than anything else. Having a broad background in social studies, science and ...