Julie Perry’s first-grade classroom at Red Bug Elementary is swimming in language. Lyrics about letters dangle from the ceiling, books are crammed into every nook and charts of poems hang on a rod.

My kids entered first grade in the mid-1990s, attending a school that was considered progressive. As a teacher, I’m all in favor of using the most advanced pedagogical techniques. But the work my kids ...

In education no question has produced so much bitter debate for so long as this one: What is the best way to teach children to read? It is a critical issue, because there is clearly a need for drastic ...

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

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First you learn to read, then you read to learn. But if you don’t learn to read effectively, how can you ever read to learn effectively? Although research on reading instruction clearly and ...

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New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

Almost half of Wyoming third graders tested below proficient in English and language arts last school year. A 2020 report to the Legislature declared those levels to be inadequate “for graduates to ...

My kids entered first grade in the mid-1990s, attending a school that was considered progressive. As a teacher, I’m all in favor of using the most advanced pedagogical techniques. But the work my kids ...

A report from the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation takes a swipe at the whole-language movement for promoting reading materials and teaching methods the author says are of questionable value. Whole ...