Language and Literacy Education

Examines how literacy instruction is changing in the digital age, from learning to sound out words in elementary school to grappling with “Macbeth” in high school.

ILA offers four frameworks for developing and evaluating literacy education reforms, each focused on a specific component of the education sector: literacy teaching and teachers, schools and schooling, student support, families and community.

Millions of children across the world are unable to read a single word even after up to four years of schooling. The goal of this landscape report is to review and summarize available empirical evidence on early grade literacy acquisition and instruction in developing countries.

This report provides information and guidance for Head Start programs as they select curricula based on the strengths and needs of their participating children and teachers. The curricula reviewed in this report were rated for their implementation in center-based programs, and each includes elements designed to strengthen the teaching and learning of children’s language and literacy skills.

Only ongoing assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in different subjects.

Research and best practices identified by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices' Adolescent Literacy Advisory Panel suggest governors pursue five strategies to improve adolescent literacy achievement.

In this policy report, the authors begin by framing the need for a focused, national effort to achieve universal, advanced reading literacy, arguing that it is an issue of equity as well as individual and national prosperity.

Takes a wide-ranging look at new efforts to address the challenges of early-grades reading instruction.

Blueprint for literacy coaches, policymakers, school and district administrators, and teacher educators, in the hope that it will help support and develop coaching in ways that will most benefit adolescent learners.

Fosters relevant professional development within schools, promotes timely research and lifelong learning for literacy teachers, and guides conversations in teacher education programs.

Fosters relevant professional development within schools, promotes timely research and lifelong learning for literacy teachers, and guides conversations in teacher education programs.

Mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

Nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

National Reports on the Development of Education submitted by countries since 1933.

Only ongoing assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in different subjects.

The Annual Reports and Information group within the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produces several reports each year that draw from over 25 surveys by NCES and other government agencies.

Nation's largest professional employee organization committed to advancing the cause of public education.

A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. Research includes K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform, teachers and teaching, higher education, military education and training, worker training, and substance-abuse prevention in schools.

Agency of the federal government that establishes policy for, administers, and coordinates most federal assistance to education.

Responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication.

Works nationally to improve learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for everyone.