To the editor: Your editorial on reforming reading instruction highlighted what a disaster “whole language” has been for literacy in our public schools. This movement decades ago to step away from ...

The chancellor of New York City Schools, David C. Banks, announced a dramatic overhaul of the city’s reading curricula on Tuesday. He admitted that the current system, which is based on progressive ...

The battleground of the reading wars is a contentious and scary place. This war has been ongoing for a century, with either side gaining and losing ground as the educational pendulum swings back and ...

This article was originally published in EducationNC. Perquimans Central Elementary is a school for pre-kindergarten through second grade in North Carolina’s rural northeast. Years ago, when Melissa ...

Gov. Mike DeWine has announced that his upcoming two-year budget will include $162 million for public and charter schools which employ "science based" curricula to teach reading, using phonics. "The ...

A report from the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation takes a swipe at the whole-language movement for promoting reading materials and teaching methods the author says are of questionable value. Whole ...

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A proponent of the new social studies standards offers a statement of support to the state Board of Education on Nov. 21, 2022, in ...

I read with great appreciation Tom Neumark’s commentary, “Our students are not getting the reading instruction they need” that ran on Friday, Jan. 13. With a master of education degree concentrating ...

Even though it’s the dog days of summer vacation, many schools across the country are getting ready to bring students back into the classroom — and that means giving serious thought to the best ways ...