Howard Berg claims to read 25,000 words a minute—the equivalent of an old-school airport paperback every four minutes. First, the good news: A skilled reader can actually tell you the plot of an ...

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 ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...