A total of 38 states have passed laws or policies about changing reading instruction, hoping to shape it in line with a collective body of knowledge and practice about how students learn to read. For ...

With dozens of states mandating changes to how reading is taught, requiring schools to use evidence-based methods, many teachers have asked the same question: Why didn’t I learn any of this in my ...

Editor’s note: This essay is an entry in Fordham’s 2025 Wonkathon, which asked contributors to answer this question: “What needs to happen next—at the state, district, and school levels—for the ...

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Most people don’t remember when or even how they learned to read. It’s often just one of those things that happened, somehow, at some murky point in the past. But to succeed in life, every child must ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

How we teach children to read has been a contentious issue in the United States for decades, a debate that has "occasionally grown so vicious it's been dubbed the Reading Wars," Vox reported. On one ...

California’s largest teachers union has moved to put the brakes on legislation that mandates instruction, known as the “science of reading,” that spotlights phonics to teach children to read. The move ...

A dozen college students are saying the word "pat" and jotting down notes about the sounds being made. "Puh - AH - tt" Pay attention to the shapes your mouths make as you pronounce the word, instructs ...