When I had my first child, the advice to me about how to raise a strong reader was simple: Read to her all the time and leave good books around. That guidance reflected the belief that learning to ...

In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, two local families on Wednesday sued literacy specialists Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell, whose reading curriculums have been used ...

The “science of reading” is a complex body of knowledge, and as more school districts train their educators in evidence-based literacy practices, they need an instructional leader at the heart of the ...

The Education Week Spotlight on Science of Reading is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on methods teachers are using to teach reading, what science says about ...

Educators at Marian University in Indianapolis saw the need for a new way to teach reading long before the Indiana legislature made it a requirement for schools. The state’s IREAD-3 results showed ...

All Maryland public schools will emphasize phonics and vocabulary when teaching kids to read starting next year, according to a plan unveiled Tuesday during a state school board meeting. Interim State ...

Students throughout the world have fallen behind on reading and maths during the pandemic, but Australian teens have managed to buck the trend. Rather than dipping, Australia's results in maths, ...