A new bill making its way through the New Jersey state legislature could require public schools to teach cursive writing from ...

After fifth grade, the boost from better decoding instruction disappears. That’s probably because as grades go up, success on reading tests reflects comprehension ability more than decoding ability.

The fifth-grade reading standards ... when they were given a passage about baseball. The way to build reading comprehension, then, is to build knowledge and vocabulary in subjects like history ...