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According to all the data, Daniel Moseley and Rahil Thobhani ought to hate writing. Educational research shows that many British schoolchildren are struggling with this basic skill, and that secondary school boys from poorer city areas are among those who flounder most.

Kelan, a ninth-grader at Montevallo High School, will turn 15 this month. He's been to various schools and got­ten himself kicked out of some, and his attendance rate at Montevallo is less than stellar.

While schools throughout Massachusetts are celebrating "A Salute to Reading is Fundamental Week" Nov. 16-20, children from the New Bedford public schools will not have the opportunity to meet that certain special person who might make a difference in a child's life

Dyslexics find it hard to concentrate on reading and listening because they are missing an inbuilt "background noise filter" usually found in the brain, a study finds.

Parents should view the results of state reading tests with a critical eye: Texas students may be passing their state assessments, but that doesn’t mean they are competitive with their peers nationwide.  

The first thing one might do is search psychology, education, and medicine research databases, which cover most research journals published in English, and major research journals in other languages. I found nothing about eyeQ.

11.9.09 - Children can innocently, intelligently, and unconsciously learn in ways that retard, diminish, or disable their capacities for ongoing learning. Learning can be unhealthy to learning.  Our populations' most widespread learning disability, "mind-shame", is but one example of this dark side of learning.

FAIR is a series of computer-based assessments designed by the Florida Center for Reading Research, for students to take in the fall and again in winter and spring for struggling readers, to help predict how well they will perform on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

Charleston County School Board members took another step Monday toward making literacy the district's top priority and creating a policy to back that

Traditional picture books are disappearing from schools as reading for pleasure takes a back seat to exam revision, according to a leading author.

By Daniel Willingham
A draft of the voluntary national standards for reading was just released, and at first glance the 18 standards sound quite sensible: students should be able to determine what a text says, make inferences from it, discern the most important ideas, and so forth.

A panel of national experts ripped reading programs overall in the city, saying they were ineffective, out of date, uncoordinated, led by teachers who were inadequately prepared and who were really doing nothing much to help struggling readers.

 
A leading investigative journalist goes back to school on and finds heads and teachers are failing the futures of of so many young boys from poor backgrounds. For such boys, their lives are already finished before they have really begun.

It's the most corrosive crisis of our age. A generation of violent young men living outside the boundaries ordinary citizens live within. The Mail asked a ledaing investigative journalist to spend nine months exporing their world.