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

First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Kentucky Department of Education’s Kentucky Reading Academies have rapidly advanced literacy outcomes for early learners ...

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 ...

As all school districts fully implement Connecticut's "Right to Read" law this year, education leaders and advocates say ...