One of the most fundamental skills students learn in school is still at the forefront of the national education conversation—how kids learn to read. The “science of reading” movement pushed forward in ...

An effort to overhaul how children learn to read, known as the science of reading movement, is sweeping the country. Here’s where it stands. By Dana Goldstein During an era of intense politicization ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Oct 10, 2023, 12:05pm EDT Oct 13, 2023, 02:47pm EDT This article is ...

California’s largest teachers union has moved to put the brakes on legislation that mandates instruction, known as the “science of reading,” that spotlights phonics to teach children to read. The move ...

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 ...

Recently, two Massachusetts families filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit targeting publishers and authors of literacy curricula. The families seek class action status for Massachusetts students who were ...

California schools can, for now, continue using a looser approach to how reading is taught to young children after a bill to mandate a “science of reading ” strategy failed to even garner a hearing in ...

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...

While this fall marks my 38 th year in education, it has been 28 years since I was a classroom teacher. Teaching elementary school was the hardest job I ever had, but there are many parts of the role ...

A bill that would have required California teachers to use the “science of reading,” which spotlights phonics, to teach children to read has died without a hearing. Assembly Bill 2222, authored by ...

In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, two local families on Wednesday sued literacy specialists Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell, whose reading curriculums have been used ...