Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

Dozens of states have passed laws directing a “science of reading” approach to helping struggling students. But who is ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten—a process that is meant to identify ...

Elementary teachers can focus on these fundamentals of child development to support social and emotional learning.

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

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

Elizabeth Nonweiler accused ministers of embedding “mixed messages” into a new £8.2 million scheme to improve literacy.

Elizabeth Nonweiler accused ministers of embedding “mixed messages” into a new £8.2 million scheme to improve literacy.

The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.

Alabama, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Mississippi—have shown that adopting more rigorous literacy standards and scientific ...

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