To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Sound it out. Ph-o-n-i-c-s. You use the fundamental skill every day. Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a ...

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

The “reading wars” that raged in American schools for decades finally seem to be ending. The victor is clear: Phonics is the ...