Assemblyman Bobby Carrol (D-Brooklyn) is demanding the state Education Department mandate New York schools adopt a ...

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

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

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

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

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

WASHINGTON — Back in the 1980s, when Mary Pat Donoghue completed her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, “Units of Study for Teaching Reading” was a popular new program that celebrated children ...

So you can read. But how? People learn to talk simply through listening — to our parents talking to us and to each other, to the TV talking to the ether, to strangers on the street. But that’s not how ...

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 recent New York Times article threatens to revive longstanding misconceptions about phonics. Teaching children to sound out words in a way that’s backed by science shouldn’t carry political baggage.

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