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Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department.

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The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. The administ...

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Many elementary school classrooms incorporate touch and movement into reading lessons. But research on the practice is inconclusive.

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ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something changed.

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The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.

A federal judge in Washington ordered Elon Musk’s team and the Office of Management and Budget to begin releasing internal documents “as soon as practicable.”

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The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is responsible for gathering data on a wide range of topics, including research-backed teaching practices and the state of U.S. student achievement.

The National Assessment for Educational Progress results show a dispiriting and growing gap between students who are academic stand-outs and those who struggle. Reading scores also fell. But fourth gr...

New national test scores indicate a continuing slide in reading skills.

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A class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts claims that the educational publishing company Heinemann falsely advertised its products as “research-backed” and “data-based.”