To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

The National Council on Teacher Quality gave poor ratings to three of Maine’s public universities at a time when reading test scores have been falling.

Poway Unified School District students returned to class Wednesday with a reading program that's showing impressive results across all grade levels. The district has implemented a multi-sensory ...

Instilling a life-long love of reading in children, particularly through my work on “Reading Rainbow,” remains one of the greatest honors and joys of my career. And yet, after years as a literacy ...

There’s no doubt that English spelling is complex. Advocates of spelling reform have even claimed that the word fish could reasonably be spelled ghoti based on the patterns of actual English words: GH ...

Kindergarten students Gabby Kim, left, and Ellie Such answer questions on a literacy lesson during Julie Celestial's kindergarten class at Mark Twain Elementary School in Long Beach. For the record: 4 ...