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 ...

The largest school system in the country enters its second year of an ambitious, multi-year journey to overhaul how it teaches children how to read this fall. Across New York City, schools have ...

In the December 2024 issue, Helen Lewis wrote about how one woman became the scapegoat for America’s literacy crisis. A heartfelt thank-you to Helen Lewis for her reporting on Lucy Calkins and the ...

This article was originally published in Missouri Independent. In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat together ...

After nearly two decades instructing both students and teachers, Jennifer Throndsen has identified three key tools to scaffold literacy instruction for developing readers: active reading, background ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Thirty-three Ohio schools and districts, including several in Northeast Ohio, will spend $45.9 million in federal funding to improve reading instruction – from hiring coaches to help ...

Struggling readers don’t just need more practice—they need targeted, research-backed strategies. Structured, multisensory phonics approaches can turn decoding struggles into reading confidence.