Experts and ideologues broke literacy. Here’s how to fix it.

Restoring literacy demands we treat reading as more than a skill, but as a gateway to wisdom and understanding.

England's synthetic phonics approach is not working for children who struggle to read

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Four ...
The Conversation

Isolated phonics lessons aren’t working: here’s a better way to teach young children to read and write

Dominic Wyse receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust for his centre The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy, he also receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. In recent years he has received ...
EdSource

How three teachers and a little kid taught me that phonics and meaning complement each other

My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...
The Conversation

Phonics isn’t working – for children’s reading to improve, they need to learn to love stories

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Cathie Wallace is ...
Education Week

Researchers Created a Phonics Program With ‘Dramatic’ Results. How It Works

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.
The Hechinger Report

What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A student in a ...