Phillipson sets new phonics test target for year 1 children - The Education Secretary will set out the core tenets of the ...

The state Education Department isn’t doing enough to embrace a more modern literacy curriculum, a Brooklyn lawmaker is ...

Bipartisan enthusiasm in Indiana for the science of reading has led to a historic jump in third-grade scores.

By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways ...

In a win for the nation’s second-largest school district, Los Angeles Unified students bounced back from the pandemic, ...

There’s a great saying by author Anna Quindlen: “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey.” And she’s spot on. Books, and the ability to read them ...

October 9, 2025 - For Chelsea Duran, returning to high school for her senior year means being on high alert, watching over her shoulder for immigration enforcement agents. As California launches a new ...

Past reforms led to early reading gains but without any long-lasting advantage to students.

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been intense ...