Buffalo has already spent $825,000 on five-day, intensive training by the Michigan-based Institute for Multi-Sensory Education (IMSE) for 300 teachers, with the eventual goal of training all ...

Ohio’s drive to boost reading scores using the science of reading has had a rocky start in the two years since Gov. Mike DeWine fought for the change, with scores going the wrong direction. Even with ...

In the Fox C-6 district outside of St. Louis, elementary reading teachers are in the process of shifting their practice, moving from a balanced-literacy approach to a “structured” approach, one that ...

The coalition seeks private and state funding, potentially a disputed $49 million in state funds. Leaders from MPS, charter and voucher schools are collaborating, though teacher union representation ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

Last year, Michigan approved two new literacy laws aimed at districts using programs that are not aligned with what’s known ...

Nationally, fourth grade students’ reading scores have been sliding for a long time.  But in the past five years, Louisiana ...

About 3,000 Indiana third graders are repeating the grade this year under a new state law that requires students to pass the ...

In the two years since San Rafael resident Dawn Patrice pulled her son out of a school because he wasn’t learning to read, a lot has changed in the literacy landscape. The Miller Creek School District ...

You write that the Golden State is “jumping on the caboose” of the pro-phonics movement in reading instruction (“California Learns From Mississippi,” Review & Outlook, Sept. 27). Yet nearly 30 years ...