November marks National Family Literacy Month, a fitting occasion as concern about reading instruction in U.S. schools goes from a simmer to a boil. For years, parents and educators around the country ...

As a parent and a strong believer in the power of education to transform lives, one of the biggest reasons I wanted to serve as a state representative was to make a difference in the lives of ...

A two-story package this weekend talks about dyslexia and what schools are and are not doing to address it. Education reporter Kristen Taketa shares some of what she learned while reporting on ...

When Colleen Walston's son was learning to read, he struggled more than most first-graders. Concord Public Schools evaluated him, but did not identify any learning disability. He was placed in reading ...

When districts embrace teaching brain words systematically and explicitly, following a spiraling curriculum much like Webster proposed, we can save legions of developmentally normal kids from reading ...

Q: What do Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Branson, and Albert Einstein have in common? Kate Griggs is the founder and CEO of the global charity Made By Dyslexia and author of the dyslexia guide This is ...

Fewer than 40 percent of fourth and eighth grade students nationwide are proficient readers. Now, led by parents of children with dyslexia, a learning disability that makes reading and spelling ...

Dyslexia screening is getting a lot of attention right now. As of last October, 46 states had enacted dyslexia-related legislation, much of it in the past few years, according to dyslegia, a website ...

Part 3 of our series "Unlocking Dyslexia." A mother who spent years coaching and encouraging her dyslexic son recalls his childhood with one pervasive feeling: "It was really scary." One father told ...

Researchers have long noted that readers with dyslexia employ eye movements that are significantly different from non-dyslexics. While these movements have been studied in small sample sizes in the ...

Is your child’s school district a dyslexia/literacy failure super-spreader? To answer this question, let’s begin with a definition. What Is Dyslexia? As many as 1 in 5 children have symptoms of ...