Books on the shelf at M.H. Moore Elementary School on Aug. 13, 2024. Amanda McCoy [email protected] The Fort Worth Independent School District is adopting a new phonics program that officials ...

Few decisions a society makes are as consequential as how it teaches children to read. Children who can’t read proficiently ...

The nearly $1M phonics plan will expand K-3 reading instruction while avoiding Bluebonnet’s debated Bible story lessons ...

Too many of California’s children cannot read. Schools must do things differently to change that, and they should start with ...

On July 1, the unpopular Reading Instruction Competence Assessment will be replaced with a performance assessment to ensure teachers are prepared to teach students to read.

MAWA movement | Driver safety | Forgetting civics. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for June 24, 2025.

The governor’s office states, “Extreme heat will impact every community in California and is a public health, climate ...

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Roughly 70% of elementary school students in Berlin aren’t reading at their grade level. Some teachers are saying that’s ...

Against this backdrop, Dan Walters of CalMatters, in his June 11 column, chose to characterize the recent sparring between ...

5. There is no single effective teaching strategy. We have to use them all. Diana Wolff, Rancho Palos Verdes.. To the editor: I am so happy that phonics will be a focus in California schools again ...

Prioritizing phonics gives short shrift to those other skills, she said. ... he couldn’t read letters from our school,” Flores said. “He always told us, you must learn to read.