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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...