California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

This carticle was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A bill that could reshape literacy education in California elementary schools cleared a major hurdle in the ...

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 ...

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been pressing to use the phonics-based science of reading since early 2023, mandating the approach as ...

Last April, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas pulled a bill on early literacy instruction and asked proponents and adversaries to reach a compromise on legislation for improving the reading skills of ...

In April 2024, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made a bold promise: The state would revamp its approach to literacy and boost state reading scores by double digits. “We’re turning the page on how we teach ...

It’s out with the new and in with the old again for students in South Dakota’s English and Language Arts classrooms. The South Dakota Board of Education Standards approved revisions to the English and ...

Across the country, March is celebrated as National Reading Month. How is Minnesota doing? The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released its most recent statistics in late January, ...