As a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a mother of a child in San Diego public schools, I’ve seen California’s early ...

When Lucy Calkins developed her approach in the 1990s, the balanced literacy teaching method was heralded as a new philosophy of education. Rather than teaching from rigid phonics textbooks, teachers ...

Fordham Institute survey finds 68% of K-3 teachers view the phonics-based approach positively as DeWine proposes additional ...

It’s the same curriculum adopted last year by the Richland School District. Pasco School District in 2022-23 adopted the American Reading Company ’s Core, which is “informed” by science of reading ...

SB242 would have also required school districts to notify parents of their children’s reading performance twice a year for K-3 students.

The opposing side champions "balanced literacy," emphasizing word recognition and context clues. Policies have vacillated back and forth for over a century, but since 2019, the science of reading ...

California’s proposed legislation to adopt the science of reading approach to early literacy would have been in sync with other states that have passed similar legislation. States nationwide are ...

Yet many schools still rely on ineffective methods, such as the discredited "whole language" approach or balanced literacy programs that downplay phonics. In Escambia County Public Schools ...