Patti Ghezzi covered education for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1996 until 2006. In a guest column today, Ghezzi writes about the big story she says she missed while covering Georgia schools ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is part of the By the Book ...

Regarding the March 12 editorial “Yes, U.S. children should be hooked on phonics”: I am a volunteer with Reading Partners, tutoring children at elementary schools in D.C. to bring them to grade-level ...

It’s out with the new and in with the old again for students in South Dakota’s English and Language Arts classrooms. The South Dakota Board of Education Standards approved revisions to the English and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California Superintendent Tony Thurmond issued a challenge to the state’s school districts last week to ensure third graders ...

EdReports, the nonprofit curriculum reviewer, is shining a spotlight on early reading—the group announced on Wednesday that it will start releasing evaluations of foundational phonics skills programs.

When I began the first grade in 1942, my mother noticed that I was slow to learn to read and arranged a meeting with my teacher. She was given a lecture on how reading was to be taught in school.

Institutions that train the next generation of educators need to do a better job teaching them to use the most scientifically proven methods of reading instruction. Almost two centuries ago, famed ...

The “reading wars” have been around for longer than you might think. In the 1800s, Horace Mann, the “father of public education” who was the first state education secretary in the country (in ...

February 19, 2026 - Arizona State University wants Cal Grants for its California-based students, but California officials say its not eligible. While some states and cities like North Carolina, ...