As a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a mother of a child in San Diego public schools, I’ve seen California’s early ...

“No one ever picked it up, nobody cared,” she said of the failure of her school and family to recognise her learning ...

I can’t read.” When Sarah, a vivacious, animal-loving third grader, said this to me, my heart sank. Sarah struggled to read the books she loved about horses and wolves and ...

Teachers who piloted the new materials told the board they were excited by the amount of student growth they saw as a result.

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 ...

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

There were two huge developments in the literacy world early this year. First, the emergence of a phonics program that could ...

Early literacy forms the foundation on which a child’s academic and life success is built. Extensive research shows that ...