Mississippi's education turnaround involved more than phonics, requiring statewide screeners, intensive remediation programs, and Governor Phil Bryant's leadership commitment.

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

Basal-type programs, which structure their main reading comprehension lessons around a core anthology of short full-length ...

To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño fears overemphasizing foundational skills such as phonics will take time away from writing, favor already advantaged children and ignore the needs of ...

First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly ...

Mississippi’s focus on phonics and high standards has propelled it to the top in reading scores, outperforming richer states ...

Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she will try to throw out the current way reading is taught and require all schools to teach phonics, a once widely used system that has had a rebirth ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — For years Oregon students have struggled with common skills, like learning to read and write. Since the ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the appropriate role of phonics in reading instruction? The role of phonics in reading instruction is often debated: how big, how small, and how should it be ...