While lawmakers were united on advancing legislation supportive of phonics, another bill that would prohibit "sexually oriented materials" drew debate.

Sciotoville Elementary Academy has been recognized as one of 109 schools across the state to receive the 2026 Governor’s ...

While high-quality literacy instruction has remained a cornerstone of education leaders’ priorities, this year, the science of reading has dominated classrooms and discussions around instructional ...

The “science of reading” is a body of knowledge referring to how students learn to sound out words, learn vocabulary, and read increasingly sophisticated texts. More teachers are being encouraged to ...

The Michigan Department of Education wants all K-5 teachers to go through a training called LETRS. Waterford Public Schools ...

Take, for example, the rule of doubling the letters f, l, s, and z when they come after a short vowel in a one-syllable word, such as “stuff”—this is essentially a spelling rule and nothing more. Most ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Wisconsin is creating a new literacy office and hiring reading coaches. Ohio is dedicating ...

This article was originally published in EdNC. North Carolina is one of several states that have passed legislation in recent years to align classroom reading instruction with the research on how ...

Governor Mike DeWine has announced the 2026 Science of Reading Champions and it includes some schools from around the Valley.

To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño fears overemphasizing foundational skills such as phonics will take time away from writing, favor already advantaged children and ignore the needs of ...

In recent op-eds and comments by Sacramento journalists and Fresno Unified school board members, there have been calls for reforming how we teach reading in our schools and for utilizing the “science” ...