There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...

The new schools chancellor in New York City is advocating teachers use the once-mandated citywide but now questioned (some would say “discredited”) approach to reading instruction known as “balanced ...

Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

I recently visited classrooms with an elementary school principal in a racially diverse Virginia district that primarily serves students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The district had ...

Some advocates and parents are worried the state's new literacy laws won't be enough to move districts not already embracing ...

Bad ideas in education are like horror movie monsters. You think you’ve killed them, but they refuse to stay dead. A generation ago, the infamous “reading wars” pitted phonics-based instruction in the ...

LAST week, Schools Chancel lor Joel Klein announced the start of a pilot program that will introduce a new way to teach reading to children in kindergarten, first grade and second grade in 10 ...

During its meeting on October 28, the AUSD Board of Education focused on Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, an annual ...