There are effective techniques for teaching vocabulary, but it's impossible to explicitly teach all the words kids need to become proficient readers. Vocabulary is key to reading comprehension, and ...

Amid a deepening literacy crisis, there’s been a focus on how to close the achievement gap, but Natalie Wexler sees the key problem undermining the American educational system a little differently.

Knowledge is power—but what happens when you're having trouble picking up new ideas? It wasn't all that long ago in human history that our access to facts, figures, and statistics was very limited.

Building knowledge beginning in kindergarten can eliminate test-score gaps between lower- and higher-income students, according to a new study. Building students’ general knowledge can lead to ...