
Finally, schools are following the 'science of reading'
Phonics is back in classrooms and it's helping young children learn to read, writes Bella DiMarco, a FutureEd policy analyst, in the New York Times. After lost decades "where dubious theories led educators to abandon the phonics method, . . . a growing number of states and districts are right back where they started." She visited a school in Richmond. The student in Cassie Gilboy’s first-grade class stumbled over the word ‘pig.’ Instead of looking at a picture for clues, she