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

There’s little that’s more devastating than witnessing a child in middle or upper primary school who struggles to read.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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; ...

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

Data from a ‘phonics check’ of new entrants is too incomplete to draw firm conclusions from, and word recognition is not the ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Nonweiler accused ministers of embedding “mixed messages” into a new £8.2 million scheme to improve literacy.