Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at ...

The idea that the “science” in reading instruction only supports phonics instruction has been “hard to dislodge,” said Maria ...

Despite decades of research about how children learn to read, too many schools across the country still rely on debunked ...

The once-abandoned instructional approach is back in place in South Dakota in hopes of improving students’ reading ...

Can you spell deja vu? The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a ...

South Dakota officially took a step in a better direction Monday when the state’s Board of Education Standards approved revisions to English Language standards that’ll embrace the use of phonics ...

In a recent column, ("We should have never stopped teaching kids phonics," March 23), Kaitlyn Buss celebrated Michigan legislation requiring teachers to ensure literacy instruction is grounded in ...

but some states are turning back to the practice of teaching letter sounds—if teacher unions do not spoil the efforts first. Phonics instructs children to identify letters and their ...

November 1997, v280 n5 p128(6). Abstract: The debate over whole-language versus phonics in teaching children to read has become a heated political issue in California. A public backlash against ...

California’s largest teachers union has moved to put the brakes on legislation that mandates instruction, known as the “science of reading,” that spotlights phonics to teach children to read. The move ...