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 ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

NEW YORK - By their own admission, the New York City Public School system has failed its students. Literacy is at the core of education, and yet the number of students who can't read, or are below ...

At a meeting with parents in May, Elizabeth Phillips, a longtime principal at P.S. 321, a highly sought-after elementary school in Park Slope, didn’t mince words about the new reading curricula being ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio --Two Cuyahoga County schools—Euclid City Schools and Orchard Park Academy—are among 33 across Ohio receiving new state funding to support how children learn to read. The grants are ...