The Golden State is now following the Magnolia State’s phonics success.

As students head back to school across New York State, classrooms are also going back to basics. Following a 2024 decision ...

Mississippi recognized its reading crisis and took action to solve it — proving to big-spending blue states like New York and ...

Kids' reading scores across the country and in New York remain chronically and stubbornly low. A recent national report shows high school seniors are reading at lower levels than at any time since at ...

Enlace Academy is expanding family literacy programs and multilingual support as its English learner population grows, with ...

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 ...

Former teacher and mother Shecondria Duncan has launched Neurostars Phonics Factory in Macon to help children with autism and ...

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 ...

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.

In response to our story about Illinois' renewed emphasis on teaching reading with phonics, dozens of you wrote to tell us how you learned to read. What you're saying: Though a few readers liked whole ...

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 ...

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 ...