Monday’s hour-long phonics lesson at the LEAP site is a collaboration with the city for its New Haven Tutoring Initiative. Amid a national move to ditch “ cue-ing” for old-school sounding out words in ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It ...