So it's no wonder, that after a career in human resources, Brewington gravitated to becoming a certified adult education instructor. These days, Brewington is loving her work with Literacy KC, ...

On July 1, the unpopular Reading Instruction Competence Assessment will be replaced with a performance assessment to ensure teachers are prepared to teach students to read.

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 ...

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.

Only 38% of fourth grade students were reading at a proficient level in 2022, and there was no improvement two years later, according to the National Assessment for Educational Progress' biannual ...

Teachers drill students on reading words using phonics concepts like those blends, including the "d-r" combinations that Kyng and his classmates were working with in the Logan Elementary class.

Education Watered-down bill makes phonics-based reading instruction optional in California by Carolyn Jones • CalMatters May 4, 2025, 8:15 a.m.

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 ...

Mary Newton, a founding member of the Wisconsin Reading Coalition, which has long advocated for a more explicit approach to phonics instruction, said she was encouraged by Stanford Taylor's ...

California schools use about half a dozen reading curricula, and some are more phonics-based than others. Typically, schools use a combination of programs and give teachers some leeway. Proponents ...