Reading News

Over the past several years, more states have passed laws or implemented other policies requiring schools to use evidence-based methods for teaching young students how to read. These mandates touch on many different components of instruction, including teacher training, curriculum, and how students are identified for extra support. The legislative movement gained steam after Mississippi…

By accepting hard truths and embracing accountability, the nation’s poorest state became a national exemplar in math and reading growth. The 2019 data release from the National Assessment of Educational Progress didn’t offer news of much progress. The test, administered in schools biannually since 1969, had shown only lackluster academic growth in most states for…

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. Read the Article