What types of skills do first-year primary school children in education priority areas need most to learn to read? To find out, scientists conducted a study of 394 children at the end of their first ...

Three key skills—academic language, perspective taking, and complex reasoning—can predict how well a student does with the kind of deep reading comprehension required in secondary school and beyond, ...

On April 9, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel on the decoding threshold, a key but little-known indicator for elementary and middle school students’ reading ability. The panel featured a ...

The simple view of reading (SVR) is a widely accepted theory that attempts to define the skills that contribute to early reading comprehension. It attributes a person’s reading comprehension ability ...

The reading-test scores of 4th graders have risen. But, somehow, that improvement has not resulted in higher reading scores for grade 8 and beyond. What’s the explanation? Why don’t later advances in ...

The most recent round of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results delivered a familiar gut punch: Just 30 percent of eighth graders in the United States read at or above the ...

“This keeps them excited about reading.” ...

By Benjamin Piper and Nompumelelo Mohohlwane. Africa stands at the edge of a historic demographic shift. By 2050, one in three young people in the world will be African. This represents an ...

Africa stands at the edge of a historic demographic shift. By 2050, one in three young people in the world will be African.