America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing ...

Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as much complexity as in the past." ...

The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six ...

VICTORIAN teachers will be forced to teach children to read by sounding out words in a major “back to basics” education move. Students will learn phonics, a method that teaches them how letter ...

Jefferson County Public Schools will revisit how it teaches students to read and by next year will roll out a new reading curriculum required for all district elementary schools, according to ...

For the 2023-24 school year — which officially starts Wednesday — Reading Language Arts curricula will add a phonics-based approach. It replaces the whole-language approach, a method districts across ...

The law comes on the heels of a host of other literacy initiatives, including mandatory dyslexia screening and universal ...

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can see ...

Patti Ghezzi covered education for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1996 until 2006. In a guest column today, Ghezzi writes about the big story she says she missed while covering Georgia schools ...