It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...

Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

They’re at it again in New York City. When Mayor Bloomberg came in, his education chancellor, Joel Klein, blessed Balanced Literacy—the program backed by Columbia University scholar Lucy Calkins, not ...

Mark Federman is the principal of East Side Community School, a public school in New York City for sixth- through 12th-graders. He leads workshops throughout the country on balanced literacy and ...

The battleground of the reading wars is a contentious and scary place. This war has been ongoing for a century, with either side gaining and losing ground as the educational pendulum swings back and ...

This Tuesday, the American Academy of Pediatrics released the recommendation that parents begin reading aloud to their children at birth. To effect this recommendation, the AAP has partnered with ...

Re “Hooked on Phonics? We Should Lose This Addiction,” by Mary Lee Griffin, Commentary, Oct. 22: Structured reading programs have helped more students than they’ve hurt. In California, we went through ...