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 ...

Government data has shown that in 2022-23, 30% of five-year-olds in England were not meeting the expected standard for literacy at the end of their reception year at school. Literacy was the area of ...

Phonics plays a pivotal role in helping children comprehend language structure and simplifying grammar and syntax crucial for effective communication. Among a multitude of teaching techniques, Phonics ...

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

There is more to phonics than whole language enthusiasts are willing to accept - There is more to whole language than phonics proponents are willing to accept. Struggling Readers.com is offering a ...

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The manner in which children are taught to read in England is in need of urgent reform, more than 250 experts have said in a letter to the government. According to research, led by academics from UCL, ...