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 ...

Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The policies on ...

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 ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

Few decisions a society makes are as consequential as how it teaches children to read. Children who can’t read proficiently by third grade are far more likely to fall behind, drop out of high school ...

In 2021, four boys transferred from private schools into Lesli Tompkins’s fourth-grade classroom at J.V. Forrestal Elementary in Beacon. They were “brilliant and eager to learn, and I could have put ...

As California wrestles with a statewide literacy crisis, a bill poised to hit Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk could fundamentally change the way students learn to read in California. The bill, AB 1454, would ...

Clarification: A previous version of this story had a different image. It has been updated for clarity. Walk into any kindergarten classroom this fall, and there’s a good chance students will be ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...

Can you spell deja vu? The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a ...

Dominic Wyse currently receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust and The Welsh Government. Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach ...