A New York State course intended to help educators use phonics and the science of reading effectively doesn’t do so and could impede students’ progress, literacy experts say.

As Yale Teaching Fellow Erin Knapps helps her students sound out words, under the mentorship of veteran East Rock educator Jennifer Ryalls.

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating ...

Harvard is the White House’s biggest target, but professors all over the country have been censoring themselves, avoiding provocative topics and rewriting grants. By Alan Blinder Rewritten syllabuses.

Virginia's legislature has passed a bill prohibiting schools from teaching what it considers to be falsehoods about the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including portraying it "as peaceful protest." ...

WEST POINT — Over 100 kindergarten students at Island View Elementary School witnessed a very important union that will play a key role in the rest of their literary lives. The letters Q and U were ...

It is mid-October in the small southern German town of Burladingen, and the harvest of the day is apples — hundreds of them. Their peeling and cutting requires all hands on deck. At large tables ...

Longtime Supreme Court Justice Barbara Madsen will teach state constitutional law at Gonzaga School of Law and Seattle University School of Law after retiring in April. “I’m really excited about ...

America’s shipyards once turned out fleets that defined eras, from the Liberty ships of World War II to the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that still project US power today. Those same yards now ...

When students learn to read in the early elementary years, developing phonemic awareness, decoding skills, and blending typically take priority. Another essential component of fluent reading, however, ...

The game ball for Super Bowl LX between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots in front of Levi's Stadium on February 07, 2026 in Santa Clara, California. Every year, on the second Sunday ...

Summer Boismier, a high school English teacher in Oklahoma, lost her teaching license after she protested a book ban. Now she is fighting to return to the classroom. By Dana Goldstein Photographs by ...