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A new bill, AB 1121, would require all schools to use a method based on the so-called “science of reading,” which emphasizes ...

Fresno Unified is working to improve student literacy. Learn how the Waterford program is boosting scores for first graders.

Atlanta News First investigation ‘Reading Reset’ identifies potential causes, solutions to Georgia’s poor literacy rates.

Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a wide-sweeping district restructuring, phonics lessons will be ...

Lanier taught fourth and fifth grade before coming to kindergarten. She says she's always wanted to work with younger kids.

Hermiston High School students have been professionally trained in the science of reading and are leading small-group ...

If students don’t learn how to read in school, not much else that happens there is going to matter. This might be a harsh way ...

With the third grade retention law in place this year, school administrators offer tips to help get students ready for the test.

Two satellite photos taken 33 years apart show the disappearance of a glacier in Iceland that was the first ice mass to be declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change. Okjökull was a ...