Students see a lot of textbooks in high school, and a little guidance can help them use those books more effectively.

Durkin found that teachers spent almost no time teaching students how to make sense of the content they were reading. In the decades since, researchers have published dozens of studies and ...

They are the typical patchwork of spending and programs – library cards, free e-books, grants for dual language programs – that have been applied, over and over, to a system that fails to teach ...