MPS is equipping students with early literacy skills and confidence to tackle increasingly complex reading and writing tasks, ...

Education Minister Ben Carroll announced that from next year every student in prep to grade 2 will be taught to read through a systematic synthetic phonics approach. Phonics explicitly teaches the ...

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 ...

A student reading at Stege Elementary School in Richmond. Photo by Shelby Knowles for CalMatters An Assembly bill introduced this week would require all California schools to teach students to read ...

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

NEW YORK - By their own admission, the New York City Public School system has failed its students. Literacy is at the core of education, and yet the number of students who can't read, or are below ...