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.
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 ...
West Contra Costa Unified School District has set up a new literacy task force to answer long-held questions about the best ways to teach students how to read. The task force, which had its first ...
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 ...
The chancellor of New York City Schools, David C. Banks, announced a dramatic overhaul of the city’s reading curricula on Tuesday. He admitted that the current system, which is based on progressive ...
Despite decades of research about how children learn to read, far too many schools across the country still rely on debunked methods and curriculum that fail students year after year. The most ...
Approximately two out of every five students in the United States cannot read at a basic level. Literacy rates have been declining for more than a decade, but since the COVID-19 pandemic those rates ...
National and state reading scores for elementary school students are down. And in Berlin, New Hampshire, some teachers and parents say there’s a literacy crisis happening in their school district. At ...