I had exciting news for my students. I had found someone who could teach them to read. This was late in the aughts, when I had just begun working with adults who couldn’t read. I had no materials, no ...

Scenario-based learning is in line with strategies for teaching adults known as andragogy, a term popularized in contemporary higher education by Malcolm Knowles (1913–1997), a central figure in U.S.

Dianne Brewington, an instructor with Literacy KC at their newest headquarters in the old Westport Middle School in Kansas City. The organization that helps adults and families to improve literacy ...

In the dynamic realm of education... The art and science of teaching reading have been subject to continual debate and evolution. Educators find themselves at the forefront of this discourse, ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

When adult learners see themselves as contributors to knowledge, their relationship to education changes and they become knowledge builders.

There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction ...

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...

Two prominent California advocacy organizations for English learners are firmly opposing a new state bill that would mandate that reading instruction be aligned with the “science of reading,” saying ...