Victorian state school grade one students will sit a new 10-minute literacy assessment under the state's move to phonics ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

A Reading Recovery teacher is seeing struggling readers progress like never before thanks to a stronger focus on phonics - but she’s having to keep her methods a secret from her employers. The teacher ...