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 York’s teachers union is rolling out statewide training on the science of reading, a phonics-first method now backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, according to Capital Tonight. The program aims to improve ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.

When Alison Campbell, a third grade teacher at Lindenwold School 4 in New Jersey, began the 2021-2022 school year, only 40% of her students were reading on grade level. By the end of the school year, ...

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To go by my e-mail, reading instruction is one of the hottest topics in the field of education. On March 7, I wrote that some -- perhaps most -- children require explicit, systematic instruction in ...

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities West Contra Costa Unified School District has set up a new literacy task force to answer long-held questions ...

How we teach children to read has been a contentious issue in the United States for decades, a debate that has "occasionally grown so vicious it's been dubbed the Reading Wars," Vox reported. On one ...

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