Six in 10 students did not meet the Texas third-grade reading standard in 2018. That was before the pandemic caused record numbers of students to fall further behind in academic achievement. According ...

Balanced literacy isn’t a program at Lubbock Independent School District, but leaders are looking at a framework for instruction that district officials hope will improve reading abilities as it is ...

Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

Teaching methods based on the idea of balanced literacy can actually make it harder for children to learn how to read. The podcast "Sold a Story" is an exposé of how educators came to believe in ...

West Contra Costa Unified School District has set up a new literacy task force to answer long-held questions about the best ways to teach students how to read. The task force, which had its first ...

This school year, New York City public schools are conducting an experiment: Can they once again teach children to read? Following New York students’ dismal scores on the National Assessment of ...

It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...

What should Indiana do to make sure students can read by grade 3? By the end of third grade, students are expected to switch from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” Unfortunately, nearly one in ...

As California wrestles with a statewide literacy crisis, a bill poised to hit Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk could fundamentally change the way students learn to read in California. The bill, AB 1454, would ...