Students who struggled with reading in early elementary school grew up to comprise 88 percent of those who did not receive a high school diploma, according to a new study.
This new report highlights the need for effective strategies to help struggling readers regain lost ground.
Merit Software has a strong track record of helping older students build the reading and language skills necessary to graduate from high school. Merit is one of only a handful of educational products that has been demonstrated to improve student test scores in reading and writing skills.
Unlike most software used in schools, Merit is not drill and practice. Merit gives students instruction in core curriculum skills while automatically tracking student progress.
With Merit, students apply skills as they learn them, receiving clear explanations when they encounter troublesome concepts. Merit gets students thinking and builds their confidence as scholars.
In what amounts to a ‘Race to the Top’ for higher education, the U.S. Department of Education is offering competitive grants to help states increase their college completion rates.
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Both English and mathematics teachers are more likely to rate the ability to write clearly and persuasively higher than mathematical ability as absolutely essential or very important for college and career readiness.
A 3rd grade teacher at a California public school recently wrote how, and why, she likes using 
IBM’s Watson computer recently crushed the competition on the popular game show “Jeopardy.” One can’t help but wonder about the current and future role of technology in education.
A new book, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” says many students are not learning anything in U.S. colleges.
The essay Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior recently published in the Wall Street Journal has garnered a lot of attention
The web-based editions of the Punch process writing programs were introduced more than two years ago.