This September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers ...

Balanced Literacy downplays structured phonics, where kids learn by memorizing letters' sounds. Is that why some are struggling to read?

A Maine school district is testing a new reading curriculum that teaches kids to break words into sounds and blend them back together ...

As sled dog teams mush the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail to Nome, kids are following along through the IditaRead Challenge, which ...

After previous years of low literacy rates, San Joaquin County is actively making changes to improve student reading scores.

“Reading can be exciting and take kids into cool new worlds,” Warrenton Grade School Principal, Liane Donovan, said. Donovan was describing part of the motivation behind the school’s new independent ...

Half of the students in Chambersburg Area School District cannot read by the end of third grade. The district is shifting from "balanced literacy" to "structured literacy," which focuses on phonics. A ...

Police Chief Richard Tyndall and Mayor P.J. Connelly visited G.R. Whitfield School to share stories with Yvonne Carroll’s ...

Civil rights leader J.T. Johnson didn't know he had dyslexia and hid his illiteracy. Now with the help of an AI program, he's ...

Achievement is still lower for kids who were toddlers during the pandemic—even though they didn't experience school closures.

In early literacy, the goal is simple but urgent: Help students become independent readers and writers. Every instructional decision we make either moves them closer to that goal or keeps them ...

Oklahoma's academic standing has plummeted to 48th nationally. Can the state learn from Mississippi's 'miracle' to improve?