A new California law is pushing for phonics-based reading instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

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

First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district's curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.

Knowing the stakes, Rose and her classmates at their west-side elementary practiced the drill just as their teacher instructed. The third graders kept a stack of worksheets tucked underneath their ...

The Education Secretary will set out the core tenets of the Government’s forthcoming Schools White Paper in a speech to a conference. The Education Secretary will set an ambition for 90% of pupils to ...

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, ...

There are few things people on both sides of the political aisle agree on nowadays, but one is that ditching phonics-based instruction for reading has been a disaster. Even California is now following ...

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Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek will on Thursday announce that from this term, the state’s 45,000 Year 1 students will undertake mandatory phonics testing — a five to seven-minute test ...

Few decisions a society makes are as consequential as how it teaches children to read. Children who can’t read proficiently by third grade are far more likely to fall behind, drop out of high school ...