Low state test scores in reading is a cause for concern in the Alpena Public Schools district, but a science of reading ...

Congress ended funding for Reading First in 2009. The more recent science of reading movement, though, has been propelled by ...

Inside a classroom in St. Charles Parish, a group of first graders sit around their teacher as she points to an easel with a large piece of paper titled “READING.” Under it, six steps lay out how to ...

Seeing a child curled up with a book as they independently learn to read the words and find the meaning in a story is a heartwarming image. We have been taught that learning to read is akin to ...

Editor’s note: This essay is an entry in Fordham’s 2025 Wonkathon, which asked contributors to answer this question: “What needs to happen next—at the state, district, and school levels—for the ...

This initiative, backed by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, has more than $100 million allocated to purchasing new curriculum, training teachers, and paying literacy coaches. Both local school employees and the ...

A former Sacramento classroom teacher is tackling the nation’s literacy crisis. Chandra Roughton founded Luminous Minds in 2020, an educational website and early learning platform.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island elementary school is working to change the way students are learning how to read through a staff-wide commitment to implement a “science of reading” curriculum ...

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 ...

Kaiden was in tears. My first-grade student, struggling through yet another reading lesson, ripped his book in half, hurled it across the room and yelled, “I hate reading!” That moment still haunts me ...

As a coalition representing educators, parents, business leaders, and other advocates, we were disturbed by the Feb. 4 op-ed “The fallacy of settled science in literacy.” Nancy Carlsson-Paige and ...