Balanced Literacy downplays structured phonics, where kids learn by memorizing letters' sounds. Is that why some are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not all children learn to read in the same way, but schools tend to adopt a single approach to literacy. luckyvector/iStock via ...

But I think it's also because reading instruction became lazy and political. "Progressives" at teachers' colleges pushed a reading technique called "Balanced Literacy." Instead of memorizing sounds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I recently visited classrooms with an elementary school principal in a racially diverse Virginia district that primarily serves ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is aiming to redouble the state’s efforts to teach reading to children between ages 3 and 8. In last night’s State of the Commonwealth address, Healey announced ...

The battleground of the reading wars is a contentious and scary place. This war has been ongoing for a century, with either side gaining and losing ground as the educational pendulum swings back and ...

One of the animating goals of The Next 30 Years is to introduce readers—whether policymakers, practitioners, or anyone else concerned with improving student outcomes—to voices they may not yet know, ...

Effort to revise, update and standardize the way Wyoming teaches K-12 students to read has been nearly a decade in the making ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s 2026 and while many are focused on turning their New Year’s Resolutions into reality, the Chatham Educational Alliance remains laser-focused on a single priority: improving literacy in our ...