Fordham Institute and the RAND Corp., asked more than 1,200 K-3 teachers in the fall of 2025 about their perspectives on reading instruction, the practices they use in their classrooms, the training ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...

A bill that would have required California teachers to use the “science of reading,” which spotlights phonics, to teach children to read has died without a hearing. Assembly Bill 2222, authored by ...

Against a backdrop of plummeting test scores and grim pandemic learning loss, the science of reading has been gaining traction, but literacy experts warn there are myriad challenges ahead. Solving the ...

Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...

How we teach children to read has been a contentious issue in the United States for decades, a debate that has "occasionally grown so vicious it's been dubbed the Reading Wars," Vox reported. On one ...

An effort to overhaul how children learn to read, known as the science of reading movement, is sweeping the country. Here’s where it stands. By Dana Goldstein During an era of intense politicization ...

Editor’s note: This essay is an entry in Fordham’s 2025 Wonkathon, which asked contributors to answer this question: “What needs to happen next—at the state, district, and school levels—for the ...