The “reading wars” that raged in American schools for decades finally seem to be ending. The victor is clear: Phonics is the ...

By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways that work best for them.

Chad Aldeman has long been steeped in the education policy world. Yet he was still caught off-guard when he realized that his son wasn’t sounding out new words by the time he was in 1st grade but was ...

Jefferson County Public Schools will revisit how it teaches students to read and by next year will roll out a new reading curriculum required for all district elementary schools, according to ...

Jefferson County Public Schools must reevaluate how it's teaching children to read, according to a majority of the board governing the 98,000-student district. Jefferson County Board of Education ...

There's nothing miraculous about a state, Mississippi, that adopts phonics and sets high standards for its kids getting ...