One important rule of writing, one I too often break, is to choose words carefully with the intended audience in mind. For ...

An author I enjoy reading is Simon Winchester. One of his books, “The Professor and the Madman,” is about the origination of ...

A new California law is pushing for phonics-based reading instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

Some advocates and parents are worried the state's new literacy laws won't be enough to move districts not already embracing ...

Supporters of the bill hope it will improve literacy instruction and outcomes while opponents worry that it is overly prescriptive and will limit the methods teachers have available to teach students.

The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build ...

Massachusetts House leaders plan to pass a bill this week that that would require school curriculums and teacher training be ...

While not mandatory, the law provides support for phonics — focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out — to ...

In a new book, researcher Timothy Shanahan argues that giving students easy texts is holding back US reading achievement ...