California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be officially retired ...

The California Reading Coalition, an advocacy group, surveyed 300 districts statewide in 2022 and found that 80% were using older curriculum that didn’t focus sufficiently on phonics. The report ...

Too many of California’s children cannot read. Schools must do things differently to change that, and they should start with ...

Idaho invests $5M in phonics-based teacher training to support K-3 literacy, aligning with the proven Science of Reading to ...

Submit your letter to the editor via this form.Read more Letters to the Editor.. Phonics alone won’t get kids reading. Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17 ...

Kids who don’t read by fourth grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school. We know what follows. When the California Assembly passed a bill last week adopting the so-called ...

“We are now adopting the Bluebonnet phonics component. So the reading is split into skills and knowledge. Skills is the ...

Low reading scores in recent years led to a push to reconsider the merits of the phonics-based “science of reading” methodology. Just under 50% of South Dakota students didn’t meet English ...

The California Reading Coalition, an advocacy group, surveyed 300 districts statewide in 2022 and found that 80% were using older curriculum that didn't focus sufficiently on phonics.

Submit your letter to the editor via this form.Read more Letters to the Editor.. Phonics alone won’tget kids reading. Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17 ...