NEW YORK - By their own admission, the New York City Public School system has failed its students. Literacy is at the core of education, and yet the number of students who can't read, or are below ...

Phonics is a cornerstone skill, both in the context of the Science of Reading as well as across curricula. If students do not have the basic ability to read words on a page, any other instruction a ...

This study examined the causal relationships between three measures of reading achievement: phonics, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. Measures were obtained from 504 second-grade students at the ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

Can you spell deja vu? The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a ...

Cambridge, Mass.-based Riverdeep Inc. has announced the release of new educational software for kids — Reader Rabbit Learn to Read with Phonics 1st & 2nd Grade. The company is promoting the release as ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A mandatory phonics test introduced in Victoria this year to screen the reading ability of all grade 1 students may have too few words ...