An influential researcher in the science of reading movement is warns schools may be "overteaching" the skill.

Singer and rapper Example suffered a blunder during a recent gig after telling a woman to “get up and dance”, apparently not realising she was pregnant and disabled. Footage of the awkward moment was ...

Alice Bradbury receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust which funds the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy at UCL. She is a member of the Labour Party and the Universities and College Union. The ...

Jeffrey McQuillan claims that encouraging phonics instruction will be a “train wreck” in California (Letters, Oct. 3). Yet his main piece of evidence, a 2020 analysis, is wanting. Aside from some ...

There are few things people on both sides of the political aisle agree on nowadays, but one is that ditching phonics-based instruction for reading has been a disaster. Even California is now following ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

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 ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as ...

Sound it out. Ph-o-n-i-c-s. You use the fundamental skill every day. Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a ...

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...

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