Re “California must finally teach reading the right way” (April 1): We say, “Thank you.” Our region needs diverse voices, parents, educators, students and professionals who work daily with struggling ...

Despite decades of research about how children learn to read, far too many schools across the country still rely on debunked methods and curriculum that fail students year after year. The most ...

Class Disrupted is an education podcast featuring author Michael Horn and Futre’s Diane Tavenner in conversation with educators, school leaders, students and other members of school communities as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not all children learn to read in the same way, but schools tend to adopt a single approach to literacy. luckyvector/iStock via ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

As a coalition representing educators, parents, business leaders, and other advocates, we were disturbed by the Feb. 4 op-ed “The fallacy of settled science in literacy.” Nancy Carlsson-Paige and ...

Kaiden was in tears. My first-grade student, struggling through yet another reading lesson, ripped his book in half, hurled it across the room and yelled, “I hate reading!” That moment still haunts me ...

Amid a deepening national literacy crisis, awareness is growing that far too many California children do not know how to read. The problem is not that our children can’t learn, experts say, but that ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...