Last month, an audio documentary and article provocatively titled “Why Aren’t Kids Being Taught to Read? ” sent shockwaves through the education community. The premise of the story, reported by ...

Chad Aldeman has long been steeped in the education policy world. Yet he was still caught off-guard when he realized that his son wasn’t sounding out new words by the time he was in 1st grade but was ...

Students in class at Lake Marie Elementary School in Whittier, on Nov. 17, 2022. (Photo by Lauren Justice/For Cal Matters) This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their ...

Sound it out. Ph-o-n-i-c-s. You use the fundamental skill every day. Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a ...

Jefferson County Public Schools will revisit how it teaches students to read and by next year will roll out a new reading curriculum required for all district elementary schools, according to ...

Patti Ghezzi covered education for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1996 until 2006. In a guest column today, Ghezzi writes about the big story she says she missed while covering Georgia schools ...

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

Primary Concepts, a provider of early education curricula, has released 81 free lessons on phonics concepts. Image Credit: Primary Concepts. Offered in the form of an e-book, FREEPhonics lessons use a ...

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. My post doc after finishing my degree ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.