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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is aiming to redouble the state’s efforts to teach reading to children between ages 3 and 8. In last night’s State of the Commonwealth address, Healey announced ...

Literacy experts warn the state's teacher training contains errors and outdated approaches that could sabotage a move to ...

One of the animating goals of The Next 30 Years is to introduce readers—whether policymakers, practitioners, or anyone else concerned with improving student outcomes—to voices they may not yet know, ...

The battleground of the reading wars is a contentious and scary place. This war has been ongoing for a century, with either side gaining and losing ground as the educational pendulum swings back and ...

National and state reading scores for elementary school students are down. And in Berlin, New Hampshire, some teachers and parents say there’s a literacy crisis happening in their school district. At ...

In 2019, two-thirds of American fourth-graders scored below "proficient" in reading in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, scores declined ...

Half of the students in Chambersburg Area School District cannot read by the end of third grade. The district is shifting from "balanced literacy" to "structured literacy," which focuses on phonics. A ...

Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...