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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.