Recently, two Massachusetts families filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit targeting publishers and authors of literacy curricula ...

On one side are the proponents of the "science of reading" movement, a phonics- and cognitive-based instructional method. The opposing side champions "balanced literacy," emphasizing word ...

Educators need more professional development at the intersection of early childhood education and literacy instruction, ...

has called on the bill’s authors to amend it to include a more comprehensive definition of the “science of reading” and include more information about teaching students to read in English as a second ...

New book recommends that educators broaden focus with history and science to help students go deeper and learn more.

Goldenberg said a future version of the bill should include a “more comprehensive definition” of the “science of reading” and should make clear that this includes research on teaching reading to all ...

But as the science of reading movement has spread, researchers and advocates have taken aim at this method—and more generally, the idea of using “sight word” lists as an instructional tool.