New York City is changing the way it teaches reading, getting children hooked on phonics, after Schools Chancellor David Banks concluded public schools have been teaching reading the wrong way for ...

Phonics Finally Gets Its Due in New York It took the city’s education bureaucracy 20 years to recognize that the Success Academy approach works.

Detroit made headlines in March when National Assessment of Educational Progress scores showed that only 5% of the city's 8th graders can read on grade level. In 2018, that number was 7% ...

EDITORIAL Hooked on phonics? Not at Massachusetts higher ed institutions. Institutions that train the next generation of educators need to do a better job teaching them to use the most ...

Now, as schools look to address low reading scores, phonics and other elements of the science of reading are getting fresh attention, fueled in part by a series of stories and podcasts by APM Reports.