New York has lost ground in reading performance. The governor is proposing changes to literacy education to address that. By Grace Ashford Reporting from Watervliet, N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed on ...

Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...

All Ohio schools will teach the science of reading this school year in an attempt to bring up literacy rates across the state. Gov. Mike DeWine is a huge proponent of this phonics-based approach to ...

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 ...

In a seismic shift based on cognitive science, two of the world's most influential teacher training institutions declare, “We are not teaching balanced literacy.” In recent months, Teachers College, ...