I remember taking numerous reading courses in college. They were my most-interesting courses because the subject is so complicated and challenging. How do you teach a child to take seemingly arbitrary ...

Jefferson County Public Schools must reevaluate how it's teaching children to read, according to a majority of the board governing the 98,000-student district. Jefferson County Board of Education ...

Mary Lee Griffin is an assistant professor of education at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. How bad is this national reading crisis we keep hearing and reading about? Federal officials, citing the ...

In a back-to-basics shift, some Howard County public schools for the first time in years will return this fall to a stress on teaching students to read via direct drills in phonics. More than a ...

As a board of education member, I speak with thousands of public school parents every year. At events, over email, when I knock on doors in my district — parents tell me their concerns, and I’m glad ...

The national literacy report by Dr Ken Rowe on the teaching of reading in Australia was released today. It recommends that schools across the country embrace “systematic, direct phonics instruction.” ...

In a recent Commentary, Dennis Baron blasts the reading lesson that was being observed by President Bush in a Florida classroom on 9/11 (“The President’s Reading Lesson,” Sept. 8, 2004). The overly ...

Bill Louden was a member of the Rowe Review into the teaching of reading in Australia. Direct Instruction is a teaching method developed in the United States in the 1960s, focused particularly on the ...