New York City’s District 5 public elementary schools, which include all schools in West Harlem, began to pilot a new mandatory reading curriculum program on Thursday as a part of the New York City ...

As the “science of reading” movement has grown, more districts are moving away from reading programs featuring practices that aren’t supported by research, and toward programs that are rated highly by ...

The largest school system in the country enters its second year of an ambitious, multi-year journey to overhaul how it teaches children how to read this fall. Across New York City, schools have ...

The Harford County Board of Education approved a contract award at its Monday meeting for the pilot of the Benchmark Advance program in reading for select elementary schools beginning this fall. On ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Wisconsin is creating a new literacy office and hiring reading coaches. Ohio is dedicating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Warm up your choppers,” teacher Jamie Dollhopf directed 16 first-grade students standing next to their desks. The students had ...

BE LIFTED. THE CITY IS GETTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PREP YOUNGER CHILDREN FOR THE CLASSROOM. MAYOR CRAIG GREENBERG ANNOUNCED $4.6 MILLION IN GRANTS TODAY AT THE YMCA OF ...

Pittsburgh Public Schools will debut a new reading curriculum this school year, supported by a converging body of research known as the “science of reading." Kindergarten through 5th grade students ...

NEW YORK - By their own admission, the New York City Public School system has failed its students. Literacy is at the core of education, and yet the number of students who can't read, or are below ...