This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...

Structured literacy is an evidence-based approach to teaching reading and writing that has gained widespread attention for its effectiveness, especially for students who struggle with literacy skills.

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...

When it comes to learning to read, new research suggests that explicit instruction -- a phonics teaching method in which the relationship between sound and spelling is taught directly and ...

In what appears to be a first, the state Department of Public Instruction is endorsing "explicit phonics instruction" as a critical component in teaching children to read. And the department said ...

There's a little war going on in the education community. Don't panic, there is nothing dangerous about this conflict. It is only ideological. What is the object of the division? The educational ...

In the latest salvo in Wisconsin's ongoing reading wars, a new coalition of educators, researchers, parents and advocates is calling for a fundamental change in the way the state's children are taught ...

If the main goal of a language course is for learners to learn to use the target language more efficiently, fluently and correctly in authentic language use situations, then current scientific ...

The Snow Foundation and the Fogarty Foundation have announced initial donations to the project, led by the charity Primary Focus in collaboration with state and Catholic school systems. The 500 ...