In recent years, the once-esoteric term “evidence-based reading instruction” has spread beyond research institutions to become part of the vernacular of classroom teachers tasked with teaching young ...

New research led by a team from Royal Holloway and the World Bank asserts that teaching methods should improve, after discovering that global literacy goals will not be met without major intervention.

To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

When the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the Nation’s Report Card, were released by the National Center for Education Statistics in June, alarm ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

Research shows there are science-backed ways to help students learn to read, but not all teachers are trained in the best way to do so. In... Teacher training programs don't always use research-backed ...

An increase in both the rates of homeschooling and the expectations of children who are entering kindergarten means the burden of teaching our youngsters to read is falling on parents like never ...

Our first look at long-term trends in reading and math assessments since the pandemic began affirm what many education professionals were anticipating. The National Association for Educational ...

Educators are rethinking how reading should be taught in schools. New research has highlighted flaws in decades-old methods. As a result, dozens of states have passed laws or implemented new policies ...

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The reading wars are back in full swing in the form of a very public battle that gives lots of attention to people and opinions instead of facts. An important fact, not opinion, is that children are ...