As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

With the recent release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress results, some may be tempted to make sweeping curricular changes or bemoan the state of education after seeing a decline in ...

In recent op-eds and comments by Sacramento journalists and Fresno Unified school board members, there have been calls for reforming how we teach reading in our schools and for utilizing the “science” ...

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 ...