The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

Our investigators examine how the program works and dig into the states that have (and have not) banned the specific method.

State funding for Act 20, an already-passed law focused on literacy in Wisconsin, is tied up in an ongoing lawsuit.

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

Educators need more professional development at the intersection of early childhood education and literacy instruction, ...

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov.

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

In her 2019 book “The Knowledge Gap,” Natalie Wexler argues that a content-rich curriculum allows students to go deeper, ...

New book recommends that educators broaden focus with history and science to help students go deeper and learn more.

Nearly everyone backs the science of reading. Why did it take eight years to update the UNC System's literacy curriculum?

The Department of Education is working to align state standards for English and language arts with the phonics-based “science of reading” framework. The proposed standards revision had its ...

A bill that would have required California teachers to use the “science of reading,” which spotlights phonics, to teach children to read has died without a hearing. Assembly Bill 2222, authored by ...