Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

In today’s post, I am introducing you to one of our favourite literacy tools and one of the best of them as well. I have reviewed it multiple times over the years and the platform keeps getting better ...

When it comes to teaching, educators can move beyond memorization and equip students with the tools they need for fluent, confident reading.

I am one of Alice Harvey’s grandchildren, and I was delighted with Emily Flake’s tribute to her (Comic Strip, December 22nd). Flake wonders what Alice did after she stopped contributing cartoons to ...

Visual Studio 2026 includes GitHub Copilot functionality built into the IDE, while third-party AI coding assistants remain available through the Visual Studio Marketplace. Using Marketplace install ...

In October, the Washington Post declared the victory of phonics over whole language instruction. California was bowing to reality, joining red states like Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana in ...

Massachusetts House leaders said Monday they plan to pass a major reading instruction bill this week, a major step in what’s been a multi-year effort to discard outdated literacy techniques in the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Fewer Ohio public school districts received top scores in early literacy last school year in the state report cards that the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce released ...

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...

As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not whether reading instruction needs fixing, but how to fix it. More than a ...

Jonathan Butcher is the Acting Director of the Center for Education Policy and Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, and the author of “Splintered: ...