Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...

This carticle was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A bill that could reshape literacy education in California elementary schools cleared a major hurdle in the ...

MONTICELLO, Ky. — Enchanted. Feats. Persuaded. Tame. Sorrowful. Determined. Barely three weeks into the school year, veteran educator Kristen Phillips had already taught her Bell Elementary second ...

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can see ...

Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17). Denise Amos says that California districts encourage students to memorize words, and believes they should instead be using phonics ...

To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño fears overemphasizing foundational skills such as phonics will take time away from writing, favor already advantaged children and ignore the needs of ...

When best practices are deemed to be an ideological possession by either political party, it’s education itself that suffers. When it comes to the world of literacy, phonics has long been deemed a ...

Broad knowledge built through social studies, literature, art and science, is what turns students into strong readers — a return to the basics ...

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 ...