Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...

A friend of mine, a young mother, vented her frustration on Facebook. “In today’s day and age it’s not hard to spend a bit of time looking at the sources,” she wrote. That sounds plausible — until you ...

More than 48,000 fourth graders in the state were reading below the basic level in 2024. Put another way: In the average Pennsylvania fourth grade class of 25, nine students can’t read at a basic ...