Literacy educators support a “balanced approach” to teaching early literacy, and are divided when it comes to the importance of foundational skills like phonics instruction, according to a new survey ...

I remember taking numerous reading courses in college. They were my most-interesting courses because the subject is so complicated and challenging. How do you teach a child to take seemingly arbitrary ...

Mary Lee Griffin is an assistant professor of education at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. How bad is this national reading crisis we keep hearing and reading about? Federal officials, citing the ...

In a back-to-basics shift, some Howard County public schools for the first time in years will return this fall to a stress on teaching students to read via direct drills in phonics. More than a ...

Torgesen, in an overview of research on the effectiveness of interventions with at-risk children, in the classroom and with small groups, noted that two programs providing relatively direct, ...

Jefferson County Public Schools must reevaluate how it's teaching children to read, according to a majority of the board governing the 98,000-student district. Jefferson County Board of Education ...

In a recent Commentary, Dennis Baron blasts the reading lesson that was being observed by President Bush in a Florida classroom on 9/11 (“The President’s Reading Lesson,” Sept. 8, 2004). The overly ...