A new brain imaging study of dyslexic students and other poor readers shows that the brain can rewire itself and overcome reading deficits, if students are given 100 hours of intensive remedial ...

The International Literacy Association is a professional membership organization dedicated to promoting high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating ...

Close to 337,000 public school students took the statewide test in October and the result “TELLS” the story: 32 percent were deficient in reading and mathematics, and are eligible for state-funded ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . The University of Chicago Press publishes more than 90 scholarly journals that cover a wide range of disciplines, from the humanities and the social ...

Lorraine Hammond is a board member of DSF Literacy Services in WA and is Vice President of Learning Difficulties Australia. Reading Recovery has been a popular remedial reading program in Australian ...

All Orange County high-school students who struggle with reading will find intensive reading classes on their schedules this school year, even if it means electives must be deleted to make room for ...

A new report from the What Works Clearinghouse questions the effectiveness of a longstanding, widely used reading program, developed by McGraw-Hill, for students with learning disabilities. In a ...

Sure, you know all about gray matter. But its lesser known counterpart white matter -- the stuff that coordinates communication between regions of the brain -- is coming on strong. The latest example ...

Bill Louden was a member of the Rowe Review into the teaching of reading in Australia. Direct Instruction is a teaching method developed in the United States in the 1960s, focused particularly on the ...

Jessica Lockett is stuck in college limbo. The 32-year-old is on her fifth attempt to pass a remedial math course at Atlanta Metropolitan College. The nursing major has five classes left to take ...