Parents are positive thinkers: 92 percent say their kids are doing reading and math at grade level, even after the pandemic, according to...

Once students can sound out words, the next step is teaching comprehension, writes Matt Bardin on The 74. Once a middle and high school...

Students don't need to sound out words, letter by letter, teachers were told. They don't need to be taught phonics systematically. If...

The rise in screen time -- not just school closures -- is a factor in the decline in achievement, suggests Tim Daly, who runs the...

In The Superstar, part of her Sold a Story podcasts, APM reporter Emily Hanford explains how a romantic view of how children learn to...

"If we are going to follow the science, then we should really embrace all science, including the science of reading," said Alberto M....

"So the anti-public school, pro-book banning crowd has latched onto the “science of reading” movement…shocked," tweets Ryan Davis...

Alabama led the nation in maintaining math and reading achievement during the pandemic, reports Trisha Powell Crain of AL.com. That is,...

Tell parents the unpleasant truth about learning loss, writes Andrew Rotherham in a story on the state NAEP scores in the The 74. "The...

Fourth- and eighth-graders' math and reading proficiency fell across the country after two years of disruption, reports the National...

Phonics is back in classrooms and it's helping young children learn to read, writes Bella DiMarco, a FutureEd policy analyst, in the New...

Louisiana students not reading at grade level in K-4 would be required to attend summer school -- or repeat a grade -- under a proposal...

You probably can't find Hustler in the school library -- or Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal, write Jay Greene and Robert Pondiscio in...

The mainstream media has declared a victor in the "reading wars," writes Robert Pondiscio. Both TIME and The New Yorker had stories last...

"The pandemic was a wrecking ball for U.S. public education," concludes the Center for Reinventing Public Education in The State of the...

Mixing wishful thinking with actual teaching is failing children, writes Greg Ashman, a school principal in Australia, on Filling the...

California's community colleges will be ordered to stop offering no-credit remedial classes in nearly all cases, if Gov. Gavin Newsom...

Math scores for Black nine-year-olds dropped by 13 points compared to 2020, representing a year's worth of learning, reports the...

The pandemic -- and the response to the pandemic -- was a disaster for students. We knew that, but now we really know that. Reading and...

In the ten years before the pandemic, high achievers did better in math and reading while everyone else slid, writes Fordham's Michael...