As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It ...

A focus on phonics has seen the reading standards of Britain's schoolchildren rise to the best in a generation. An study of 9-10 year olds from 50 different countries ranked the UK's youngsters as ...

The Early Years Curriculum Group is against recommendations made in the Rose Review that children should be taught to read using synthetic phonics by age five (News, 8 December 2005). The experts ...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades ...

After Teachers Expose Racist Phonics Curriculum, Minneapolis Schools Cut Contract Activists said the reading materials were untested, insensitive and clueless. Sarah Lahm November 16, 2015 ...

Lucy Calkins is the Richard Robinson Professor of Literacy at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the founding director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project.

EdReports, the nonprofit curriculum reviewer, is shining a spotlight on early reading—the group announced that it will start releasing evaluations of supplemental phonics programs for K-2.

NYC public schools changing reading curriculum for young students NEW YORK - New York City Public Schools are embarking on a dramatic shift on how they teach reading, seeking to rectify a literary ...

The explicit teaching of phonics has lifted student achievement and parents are happy with their children’s reading progress, the principal of a Perth-based public school says.