Dozens of states have passed laws directing a “science of reading” approach to helping struggling students. But who is ...

Classroom coaching is a proven strategy that improves reading scores with relatively little investment, and state school ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...

Nationally, fourth grade students’ reading scores have been sliding for a long time.  But in the past five years, Louisiana ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

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Assembly Bill 1454 marks a turning point in California in a long-running debate over how to teach kids to read. For decades, ...

Classroom coaching is a proven strategy that improves reading scores with relatively little investment, by hiring coaches to work one-on-one with teachers on how they can improve their students' ...

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...