Embraced by the city and then much of the nation back in 2003, balanced literacy attempted to teach kids to read not through phonics, but by exposing them to books of their choice in order to ...

State funding for Act 20, an already-passed law focused on literacy in Wisconsin, is tied up in an ongoing lawsuit.

Our investigators examine how the program works and dig into the states that have (and have not) banned the specific method.

Each is entangled with many interacting variables, making it hard to isolate a single cause (e.g., coffee, a teaching method) for a specific outcome (e.g., heart disease, reading proficiency). For ...

California’s largest teachers union has moved to put the brakes on legislation that mandates instruction, known as the “science of reading,” that spotlights phonics to teach children to read. The move ...