First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. When the B.C. NDP introduced a ...

The number of EU legislative proposals adopted at first reading between the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers has risen dramatically. According to Jean-Paul Jacqué, until recently a ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. The $1 billion-a-year Reading First program has had no measurable effect on students’ reading comprehension, on average, although participating schools are spending ...

With the end of the six-year period of Reading First on the horizon, no clear empirical picture has emerged of how well the federal program is doing at a national level in bringing struggling readers ...

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, all curated by the National ...

An NDPer is launching a Quixotic bid to rein in prime ministerial power, but he certainly has a point You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. First ...

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...

First reading: The title of a bill is read out and copies of it are printed but no debate takes place. Second reading: A debate on the general principles of a bill. Committee stage: Members subject a ...

The Knesset early Tuesday passed, in the first of three readings, a first and significant bill in the divisive effort by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right coalition to overhaul Israel’s ...

In the middle of my journey, I picked up Paradise Lost. I did so out of embarrassment, a dutiful feeling that I must at least try to read it, finish it even, before the dark evening of my life. It had ...