Like a growing number of teachers, she has embraced science of reading strategies including phonics — but state legislators warn those instructional changes haven’t come fast enough. Credit: Julian ...
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Letter: Michigan literacy laws, not MPS, drove phonics shift

LETTER: Reader says MPS adopted phonics to comply with Michigan’s 2024 literacy and dyslexia laws, criticizes Lucy Calkins, and notes UFLI approval.
According to the last round of PIRLS testing, English children are the best readers in the western world. On the most recent ...
Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...
Kentucky lawmakers are again seeking to ban 'three-cueing,' a reading instruction method, with the goal of shifting to a Science of Reading approach.
As it adjusts to new state rules on holding back third graders, the Farmington School District will use a new phonics ...
Peek inside a kindergarten, first-grade, or second-grade classroom at Midland Public Schools any day of the week, and you’re guaranteed to see adorable kiddos and a flurry of activity. What you’re ...
Rahm Emanuel is spot on in his op-ed, “The ‘Mississippi Marathon’ Is Teaching Kids to Read” (Jan. 22).I began school in 1960 and learned how to read through phonics. In the 1980s when I started my ...
Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called "systematic ...
Wisconsin's Act 20 literacy bill requires schools to use phonics-based reading instruction and screen young students for reading challenges. School districts have reported both successes, like ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms. Trump trade adviser Navarro says administration may force data center builders like ...