Fewer adults and kids are reading for pleasure — here are some possible reasons for the shift (and it’s not just screen time).

When highly-skilled teachers work in a functional system with strong leadership, we really can improve student literacy at scale.

Sandra Nickel’s newest book, The True Ugly Duckling: How Hans Christian Andersen Became a Swan, takes on one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. 

AI has a role to play in the teaching of reading comprehension. But that role should be as an assistant to the teacher — not to the reader.

Using AI to revise or produce texts of certain levels of difficulty or using it to summarize and explain texts are not scaffolds likely to make kids into better readers. Here’s why.

After years in the classroom, I now know that I can’t be a truly great teacher on my own, that I have to work within a functional system.