Soon after her son started first grade at Vallecito Elementary School in Terra Linda last fall, Dawn Patrice noticed something had changed. “He started really resisting going to school,” Patrice said ...

CASD's plan combines professional development, revamped instructional models, and tools to help more students ready by end of third grade.

Want to know if a K-2 classroom is using explicit, systematic phonics or balanced literacy? This visual illustrates some of the main instructional differences between the two approaches to early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I recently visited classrooms with an elementary school principal in a racially diverse Virginia district that primarily serves ...

The job description has grown. The pay and support haven’t. Meanwhile, not enough kids are learning to read — in part because of the method they’re being taught. So New Haven Public School (NHPS) ...

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, ...

In a seismic shift based on cognitive science, two of the world's most influential teacher training institutions declare, “We are not teaching balanced literacy.” In recent months, Teachers College, ...

The Santa Barbara Unified School District has been under fire in recent months for students’ low math and reading scores, but Tuesday night, it will roll out some long-overdue positive news: the ...

The New Mexico Public Education Department named Bell Elementary School as a Structured Literacy Model School, ranked alongside seven other schools in the state. The PED recently sent out a press ...