When districts embrace teaching brain words systematically and explicitly, following a spiraling curriculum much like Webster proposed, we can save legions of developmentally normal kids from reading ...

The “science of reading” is making its way onto more governors’ and state legislators’ priority lists as the 2024 legislative session gets underway. In Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, ...

In the dynamic realm of education... The art and science of teaching reading have been subject to continual debate and evolution. Educators find themselves at the forefront of this discourse, ...

Enhanced data-driven literacy initiatives are needed to improve reading instruction in Louisiana schools. Implement a 90-minute daily block of literacy instruction in grades one to three. In order to ...

California schools can, for now, continue using a looser approach to how reading is taught to young children after a bill to mandate a “science of reading ” strategy failed to even garner a hearing in ...

Regardless of which languages your child is learning, reading to them is fundamental. It helps build the foundation for ...

Cody Beck reads a book that was assigned by his teacher at Grenada Middle School. Since April, Cody has been on a “homebound” program due to behavior, where he does his work at home and meets with a ...

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. A bill that would have required ...

CLARIFICATION: The article was revised on April 24 to clarify that the Committee on Accreditation, by law, has the power to accredit programs. The Commission on Teacher Credentialing responds to ...

Is your child’s school district a dyslexia/literacy failure super-spreader? To answer this question, let’s begin with a definition. What Is Dyslexia? As many as 1 in 5 children have symptoms of ...