As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not whether reading instruction needs fixing, but how to fix it. More than a ...

Some teachers and advocates objected to a plan to require phonics instruction in K-12 schools. The latest deal makes it ...

A California bill proposing mandatory phonics-based reading instruction has advanced but without requiring schools to adopt ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

A strong foundation in phonics and literacy in ... In our classroom, learning letter sounds isn’t just about flashcards and worksheets — it’s about hands-on, meaningful play and using ...