The new schools chancellor in New York City is advocating teachers use the once-mandated citywide but now questioned (some would say “discredited”) approach to reading instruction known as “balanced ...

Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Massachusetts parents who claimed their children were harmed by ...

Join us on April 26, 2018 at 2pm (EDT) for a discussion on implementing balanced literacy, led by Dr. Jill Marron, Professional Learning Specialist, and Kristin Trostel, Product Marketing Manager for ...

Mark Federman is the principal of East Side Community School, a public school in New York City for sixth- through 12th-graders. He leads workshops throughout the country on balanced literacy and ...

You may have missed it, but last week, the city Education Department announced it was all but abandoning the literacy curriculum used to teach a generation of our children to read. This little-noticed ...

(The Center Square)- Educators from Pennsylvania Literacy Coalition and Teach Plus PAsat down Wednesday with state legislators to discuss the improved literacy practices implemented in the Middletown ...

One of the animating goals of The Next 30 Years is to introduce readers—whether policymakers, practitioners, or anyone else concerned with improving student outcomes—to voices they may not yet know, ...

West Contra Costa Unified School District has set up a new literacy task force to answer long-held questions about the best ways to teach students how to read. The task force, which had its first ...