First grade teacher Haley Harrier leads a reading lesson at Barron Park Elementary School in Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2022. Photo by Magali Gauthier. Some districts with substantial numbers of ...

Experts have released robust research to show that phonics should be taught hand-in-hand with reading and writing to encourage true literacy and a love of reading, not through narrow synthetic phonics ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Low statewide reading scores have sparked many advocates to call for California to adopt a so-called structured literacy curriculum that ...

Readers discuss an article about a trend back to emphasizing phonics. To the Editor: Re “She Helped Transform Reading Lessons. Now She’s Backtracking” (front page, May 22): As an educator for 30-plus ...

No one was a greater skeptic than Martin Elementary kindergarten teacher Alissa Szewczak when New Kensington-Arnold administrators announced the district would switch reading curriculums. Two years ...

In the dynamic realm of education... The art and science of teaching reading have been subject to continual debate and evolution. Educators find themselves at the forefront of this discourse, ...

Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Music and pop culture are everywhere and one national organization is on a mission to bring culture to the classroom. The Reading with a Rapper program strives to teach reading ...

In May 2025 an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education posed the question: Are students no longer reading in college courses? This article was serendipitously published just days before educators ...

Bad ideas in teaching are like monsters in horror movies: No matter how many times you kill them, they don’t stay dead. That is, when you can kill them at all. Consider “learning styles.” Cognitive ...