As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not whether reading instruction needs fixing, but how to fix it. More than a ...

Some teachers and advocates objected to a plan to require phonics instruction in K-12 schools. The latest deal makes it ...

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas called for an agreement on how to train teachers in reading instruction; when he didn’t get it, ...

Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ first year using an evidence-based curriculum to teach reading has been embraced by ...

I have been an educator for 37 years, and I choose to use data-informed decision-making for my students’ instruction rather ...

It’s been a while since some school districts have used old-school multiplication tables. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, ...

Despite that major blow, Springfield Public Schools’ teachers remain committed to providing top-of-the-line education to ...

Balanced language downplays phonics in favor of teaching words through looking at pictures and guessing based on a word’s context in a paragraph. Starting next fall, the state will require ...

"When students have underqualified teachers or full-time substitutes, they’re more likely to experience learning delays, low graduation rates, and test scores below grade level," notes the site.

Phonics is a term some of you may be familiar with, for it was the primary tool used to teach many students how to read years ago.