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

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

WASHINGTON — Back in the 1980s, when Mary Pat Donoghue completed her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, “Units of Study for Teaching Reading” was a popular new program that celebrated children ...

When students at Moline Elementary gather for reading lessons, their teachers now use strategies that go beyond memorization — helping children connect sounds, letters, and meaning. It’s part of a ...

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

A recent New York Times article threatens to revive longstanding misconceptions about phonics. Teaching children to sound out words in a way that’s backed by science shouldn’t carry political baggage.

October 9, 2025 - For Chelsea Duran, returning to high school for her senior year means being on high alert, watching over her shoulder for immigration enforcement agents. As California launches a new ...

Alice Bradbury receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust which funds the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy at UCL. She is a member of the Labour Party and the Universities and College Union. The ...

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

Bipartisan enthusiasm in Indiana for the science of reading has led to a historic jump in third-grade scores.

The government has made some bold claims for its school reading policies—including that early results have been ...