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Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade.

A bill asking educators to adopt the "science of reading" emphasizes phonics. Will enough California teachers respond?

California's reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state's literacy crisis.

Roughly 70% of elementary school students in Berlin aren’t reading at their grade level. Some teachers are saying that’s ...

Phonics, a method that teaches the connection between letters and sounds, is at the center of a new push by California lawmakers to close the state’s early childhood literacy gap. A bill backed by ...

Those concepts are phonics (the relationship between letters and sounds); phonemic awareness (the ability to distinguish a language's sounds from one another); fluency (the ability to read quickly ...

Victorian schools are embracing a shift to phonics with a recent snapshot showing nine out of 10 government primary schools already using this approach to teach reading, well ahead of the requirement ...

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Gov. Phil Murphy signed them into law last August. “An emphasis on phonics in reading instruction is essential to the lifelong success of our children,” Murphy said, during his 2024 State of ...

But cultivating more school options is not the end-all-be-all. As of 2019, 25 states had voucher programs of some type in ...

Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state's third ...