In 1955, Rudolph Flesch wrote a simple book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, in which he pointed out that education was failing simply because we were no longer teaching reading by using phonics. It seems no ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom reads a book to kindergarteners at the Washington Elementary School in Sacramento in 2019. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño ...

California began planning to pull back from an education disaster this month. The catastrophe was self-inflicted. It was also predictable. About a decade ago, fuzzy-thinking theorists sold the state ...

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...

The reality, however, is that it’s simplistic to merely blame the pandemic. The erosion of English reading skills, particularly in public schools, started decades ago with a long-simmering war on ...

Already troubled by her 4th grade students’ low reading levels, San Antonio-area teacher Melody Fernandez entered “survival mode” when she was moved down to 1st grade—and discovered the full scope of ...

A report on how young children in England should be taught to read is expected to endorse a phonics-based approach. As the final touches are put to the government-sponsored Rose review, the women ...

There’s a great saying by author Anna Quindlen: “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey.” And she’s spot on. Books, and the ability to read them ...

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A child’s individual differences, skills and experience matter a lot in the learning process, and learning to read is no exception. That’s why new legislation based on the erroneous assumption that ...