The fall marks the start of the second school year since Ohio mandated a shift toward phonics-based reading instruction.

Madison County lawmakers are commending improvement in third-grade literacy rates for local students following results from the Indiana Reading Evaluation assessment. Mirroring a statewide trend, the ...

For more than a decade, my community of Indian River County, Florida, has committed itself to ensuring that 90% of students ...

It’s taken four decades, but using phonics to teach English soon could be state policy. Phonics is where kids are taught a ...

Lowering expectations won’t inspire better outcomes. It risks misleading parents and denying the very students who need help ...

Indiana reports a significant increase in third-grade reading proficiency, with over 87% of students passing the IREAD ...

As the “science of reading” movement has grown, more districts are moving away from reading programs featuring practices that aren’t supported by research, and toward programs that are rated ...

Indiana's third graders showed a notable increase in literacy, with an over 87% proficiency rate in the IREAD assessment, as ...

In November 2022, Kentucky lawmakers ended a contract with the University of Kentucky for its statewide reading research ...

Nearly two years after it became law in Wisconsin, Act 20 has been fully funded. State lawmakers included nearly $41 million for literacy efforts in the recently passed 2025-27 state budget ...

Too many of California’s children cannot read. Schools must do things differently to change that, and they should start with the “science of reading,” an evidence-based approach backed by ...

Results of the 2025 Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, known as M-STEP, showed only 39.9% of third graders and 42 ...