Lawlor said the improvement follows the district’s implementation of a new literacy program designed to strengthen early ...

You write that “California Learns From Mississippi” (Review & Outlook, Sept. 27) on phonics, but I fear you give too much credit to Golden State legislators. Assembly Bill 2222, proposed in 2024, ...

Students are outperforming statewide averages in both English language arts and math, and district officials attribute the ...

The law provides training for school principals and reading specialists in the “science of reading," a method focused on ...

While not mandatory, the law provides support for phonics — focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out — to ...

Nationally, fourth grade students’ reading scores have been sliding for a long time.  But in the past five years, Louisiana ...

Some advocates and parents are worried the state's new literacy laws won't be enough to move districts not already embracing ...

The House will vote Wednesday on a sweeping early literacy reform bill, aiming to reverse what leaders are calling “troubling ...

Porter-Magee, K. (2025). “ Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading: New book touts the critical role teachers ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing ...

Here’s what I found: While there has not exactly been a region-wide “Southern surge,” there have been some notable Southern ...