She asks her students if they can feel the way the words sound as they speak. "Say it again and see if you feel it in your vocal cords," Fuxa prompts her reading instruction class, held last October.

Hannah Hughes is playing a game with a group of second graders at Johnson Elementary School in Kingsport, Tennessee, who are still working on their reading skills. Hughes shows the group the word ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story misstated the number of alternate-preparation programs that received an F or a D rating. It was 12. The number of teacher-preparation programs that teach ...

Science of reading emphasizes phonics and the rules of the English language. A new law requires schools to align their reading curricula with science of reading. New state training aims to teach ...

Arkansas' ongoing effort to transform the teaching of reading to better align with research and to improve student achievement has hit some milestones, state Division of Elementary and Secondary ...

As elected officials try to address low reading scores, one idea has bipartisan support: require teachers to take a specific ...