It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...

Teaching methods based on the idea of balanced literacy can actually make it harder for children to learn how to read. The podcast "Sold a Story" is an exposé of how educators came to believe in ...

This school year, New York City public schools are conducting an experiment: Can they once again teach children to read? Following New York students’ dismal scores on the National Assessment of ...

Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is part of the By the Book ...

I recently visited classrooms with an elementary school principal in a racially diverse Virginia district that primarily serves students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The district had ...

New York City announced on Tuesday it is switching its 32 school districts, encompassing hundreds of schools, to the science of reading to teach students to read and write. Over the course of the next ...

California schools can, for now, continue using a looser approach to how reading is taught to young children after a bill to mandate a “science of reading ” strategy failed to even garner a hearing in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Gov. Mike DeWine is wading into the reading wars – the decades-long debate over how to teach children to read. In introducing his two-year budget proposal late last month, DeWine ...

There are many factors that influence a child’s ability to read, and one of them is the literacy curriculum their teacher is using. As part of a new investigation into why so many Massachusetts ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Massachusetts parents who claimed their children were harmed by contested reading curricula designed by three prominent literacy experts.

Pat Bashir's excitement was contagious as she led a story hour at the downtown Nashville Public Library on a late July morning. Within a few minutes, around 40 kids and adults were on their feet ...