New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

With the new school year now rolling, teachers and school leaders are likely being hit with a hard truth: Many students are not proficient in reading. This, of course, presents challenges for students ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Missouri students are headed down a dangerous road. Only 30% of the state’s ...

Microsoft has rolled out Reading Progress, a free education tool for Teams that gives teachers artificial intelligence (AI) estimations of student performance and errors when reading text. The Teams ...

For decades, reading scores have remained stagnant at best, and the pandemic made things even worse. K–12 teachers at every grade level have students who struggle to read, and regardless of their ...

Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ first year using an evidence-based curriculum to teach reading has been embraced by students and teachers despite a few shortcomings, which include the rigid ...

The Education Week Spotlight on Reading Fluency is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on how much time should be spent teaching foundational reading skills, how ...

The recent NAEP scores have confirmed a sobering truth: Our schools remain in the grips of a literacy crisis. Across the country, too many children are struggling to read, and too many teachers are ...

Missouri students are headed down a dangerous road. Only 30% of the state’s fourth-graders are reading at grade level. The numbers are even more alarming for Black and Hispanic students in the state.