As students head back to school across New York State, classrooms are also going back to basics. Following a 2024 decision from the Board of Regents, later written into the state budget, districts are ...

“We have a science of reading,” Snow said. “But now, we need a science of teaching reading that is equally well-developed if ...

Learning to play an instrument has long been linked to improved reading skills among children, and we may finally understand ...

This recent meta-analysis examined 59 studies of spelling interventions for students who had, or were at risk for, learning ...

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...

The Department of Education has done this by implementing 'Into Reading,' a new literacy program being rolled out in elementary schools around the city. The program is changing the way children learn ...

Back-to-school time is almost here, which means lots of homework and arguments about screen time. It's also the time of year when younger children can become frustrated as they begin or continue their ...

Fletcher, Savage, and Sharon (Educational Psychology Review, 2020) have raised a number of conceptual and empirical challenges to my claim that there is little or no evidence for systematic phonics ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...