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Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...

Can you spell deja vu? The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a ...

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 ...

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...

Test scores at 66 of the state’s lowest-performing schools strongly outpaced similar schools after educators adopted phonics-based instruction, offering some of the most compelling evidence to date ...

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...