Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Gov. Mike DeWine is wading into the reading wars – the decades-long debate over how to teach children to read. In introducing his two-year budget proposal late last month, DeWine ...

Common elementary English Language Arts curricula in California: Wonders by McGraw Hill Education is designed to foster a love of reading in all children through exploration of text and daily ...

Many of California’s public schools are failing to teach all of our students to read because they use programs that don’t follow the science of reading. Teacher-training programs ignore science as ...

State leaders need to recognize that learning to read is a civil right and must “get off the fence” and “take responsibility” for the fact that more than 60% of California third graders are reading ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul promised to revamp New York’s approach to literacy instruction in hopes of increasing reading scores, but a new course for teachers may impede progress. Credit: Will Waldron/Albany ...

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 ...