Salem-Keizer School District leaders took the unusual step of canceling school for most of the week for the lessons.

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 ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

Poway Unified School District students returned to class Wednesday with a reading program that's showing impressive results across all grade levels. The district has implemented a multi-sensory ...

As the “science of reading” movement has grown, more districts are moving away from reading programs featuring practices that aren’t supported by research, and toward programs that are rated highly by ...

There’s no doubt that English spelling is complex. Advocates of spelling reform have even claimed that the word fish could reasonably be spelled ghoti based on the patterns of actual English words: GH ...

Three of Maine’s public universities received failing grades in 2023 for one of the most critical things they do: prepare future educators to teach kids how to read. The National Council on Teacher ...

Kindergarten students Gabby Kim, left, and Ellie Such answer questions on a literacy lesson during Julie Celestial's kindergarten class at Mark Twain Elementary School in Long Beach. For the record: 4 ...