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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the past century educational communities have debated about how best to teach reading. Phonics was in…then it was out. Whole-word instruction replaced phonics and ...

She asks her students if they can feel the way the words sound as they speak. "Say it again and see if you feel it in your vocal cords," Fuxa prompts her reading instruction class, held last October.

Education leaders want Missouri teachers to lean into research-backed literacy instruction methods, known as the science of reading. Missouri education leaders are pushing for a big change in the way ...

Across the country, teachers are navigating the impact of the “science of reading” laws, which mandate using curricula and methods deemed consistent with scientific findings about reading and ...

The “science of reading” movement isn’t slowing down. Throughout 2025, Education Week has covered how states and districts are continuing to put new instructional methods and materials into practice, ...

In 2019, two-thirds of American fourth-graders scored below "proficient" in reading in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, scores declined ...

A majority of students in California, including Santa Barbara, cannot read at grade level and are at risk of long-term reading failure, according to the California Reading Coalition. Without strong ...

BELOIT — School districts across Wisconsin are faced with new approaches to reading instruction after Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill into law last week. But, there still are many questions left ...

Regarding the March 12 editorial “Yes, U.S. children should be hooked on phonics”: I am a volunteer with Reading Partners, tutoring children at elementary schools in D.C. to bring them to grade-level ...

This article was originally published in Oregon Capital Chronicle. The pandemic pushed teachers at Brooklyn Primary School in Baker City to overhaul how its teachers taught reading. When kids returned ...

Pay attention to the shapes your mouths make as you pronounce the word, instructs Robin Fuxa, their education professor at Oklahoma State University. She asks her students if they can feel the way the ...