Why do California’s fourth graders have trouble reading? Nearly 60 percent of them do not read at grade level. Literacy rates ...

Assembly Bill 1454 would require the state Board of Education to adopt phonics-based instructional materials and include ...

Marion Joseph died in 2022 and therefore cannot celebrate what at long last is happening in California to improve children’s abysmal levels of reading comprehension. Joseph, a renowned expert on ...

The crisis is multi-layered and therefore the solutions must adhere to similar principles. Undoubtedly, our schools must be ...

Marion Joseph died in 2022 and cannot celebrate what is finally happening in California to improve children’s abysmal reading ...

Some of the strongest pushback against state literacy requirements has come from Massachusetts’ wealthiest communities.

Reading scores have jumped in 28 out of 34 north central Idaho elementary schools. Debbie Critchfield, the Idaho ...

It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

Gamifying literacy and phonics lessons teaches students valuable social-emotional skills, gives them regular movement breaks, ...

Edward Heneage, Fairfield, Hogsthorpe and Richmond primary academies celebrate glowing phonics results. Pupils from Edward ...