To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño fears overemphasizing foundational skills such as phonics will take time away from writing, favor already advantaged children and ignore the needs of ...

Basal-type programs, which structure their main reading comprehension lessons around a core anthology of short full-length ...

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

In addition to funding clean energy, gun violence prevention and housing, New York's state budget addresses a top concern in education: students' low reading scores. Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed for ...

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

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...

At the Reading League conference, Burns shared tips from a set of guidelines he created with his colleague, Valentina ...

Mississippi’s focus on phonics and high standards has propelled it to the top in reading scores, outperforming richer states ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S.

Phonics is a common method of teaching children how to read by matching the ... approach in schools is another possible reason our kids aren’t reading as much anymore. This approach, Mitchell ...

The goal is to make the reading scores on the National Association of Educational Progress — sometimes referred to as “the nation’s report card” — go from near the bottom to within the country’s top ...