Most children in lower and middle income countries fail basic literacy tests, according to World Bank-backed report ...

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

The law provides training for school principals and reading specialists in the “science of reading," a method focused on ...

While not mandatory, the law provides support for phonics — focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out — to ...

Elizabeth Nonweiler accused ministers of embedding “mixed messages” into a new £8.2 million scheme to improve literacy. | ITV ...

There is much blaming and finger-pointing as to why the U.S. isn’t doing better. Some experts say that parents are allowing kids to spend too much time on screens, while others argue that elementary ...

The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.

Porter-Magee, K. (2025). “ Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading: New book touts the critical role teachers ...

Data from a ‘phonics check’ of new entrants is too incomplete to draw firm conclusions from, and word recognition is not the ...

Nationally, fourth grade students’ reading scores have been sliding for a long time.  But in the past five years, Louisiana ...

The 74 reports that reading for pleasure among kids has significantly declined, driven by distractions like smartphones and ...