Assembly Bill 1454 marks a turning point in California in a long-running debate over how to teach kids to read. For decades, ...

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

Aug. 8—For the 2023-24 school year — which officially starts Wednesday — Reading Language Arts curricula will add a phonics-based approach. It replaces the whole-language approach, a method districts ...

In a win for the nation’s second-largest school district, Los Angeles Unified students bounced back from the pandemic, ...

Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17). Denise Amos says that California districts encourage students to memorize words, and believes they should instead be using phonics ...

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

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

The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.

Reading really does begin at home. And with a little love, language, and laughter woven into your daily routines, you are giving your child the best possible start. You’re not just raising a reader; ...

As educators across Oklahoma look for ways to close literacy gaps, the Reading League Oklahoma is helping teachers gain the tools and training they need to help every student learn to read — not just ...