Four school districts in major urban areas using the science of reading found while students are grasping basic literacy ...
Once reconciled and signed by Governor Healey, the legislation will mark a major increase in state oversight of local school districts.
The “science of reading” movement isn’t slowing down. Throughout 2025, Education Week has covered how states and districts are continuing to put new instructional methods and materials into practice, ...
Are our brains wired for reading? Can kids learn to read on their own? Here's what the research says and how we can implement ...
Jamilah Watson, a reading tutor with the program Reading Assist, works with a rising kindergartner at Stubbs Early Education Center in Wilmingon, Delaware. This was the first year that Reading Assist ...
American students’ reading scores have stagnated for more than 30 years. What needs to change? Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for ...
The statistics are well known: only 35 percent of students are reading proficiently by grade 4, and NAEP reading scores are the lowest in decades. Although most students can learn to read, the ...
In 2019, two-thirds of American fourth-graders scored below "proficient" in reading in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, scores declined ...
After years of stagnant reading scores in Wisconsin, some school districts are using federal pandemic aid to rethink their literacy instruction. Cudahy, a school district south of Milwaukee with about ...
An Alabama law would ban elementary teachers from using an outdated method of reading instruction. SB168 would prohibit ...
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