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Mississippi has improved from 49th to ninth in fourth-grade reading results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the past ten years. pololia - stock.adobe.com A miracle defies the ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Photo: I-Images/Zuma Press There are few things people on both sides of the political aisle agree ...

More than 45,000 Queensland Year 1 students will undergo compulsory phonics testing from later this term. Here’s how it will work. The Courier-Mail enlisted the Department of Education to explain ...

Two Cuyahoga County schools are among those receiving part of a $46 million federal grant to implement the phonics-based Science of Reading approach mandated statewide. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two Cuyahoga ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Three-cueing” instructs kids to guess at words instead of sounding them out through phonics. It doesn’t work. Fly View Productions Getty Images If students can’t read, they will struggle to ...

Teachers are being instructed to dedicate just 10 minutes to teaching their students phonics at a northern suburbs school, despite the government’s 25 minute recommendation. From this year, students ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. All state school students from prep to grade 2 will learn to read using the same explicit teaching method within two years, after the ...

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa has overseen sweeping changes to the education system. On Monday, the Board of Regents took on reading, deciding that every school district must revert to ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...