Parents may feel powerless to influence their children’s reading habits. But, in reality, they can dramatically impact kids’ reading fluency, level, and comprehension.

And while reading teachers spend less than a quarter of the class time devoted to reading working on comprehension, that’s still magnitudes more than the less than 1 percent of time research ...

For some educators at the summit, thinking about applying research across every element of reading class—in listening and speaking instruction, comprehension, syntax—feels like another sea change.

SC’s annual test of math and English showed a roughly six-point gain in proficiency in reading, with nearly 60 percent of ...