Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

The Plain Dealer’s March 5 editorial, “Laudable K-12 proposals on literacy instruction should not be mandatory,” presented a balanced approach to help solving literacy instruction in Ohio’s schools.

In an effort to address what they call the “educational crisis of our time,” Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks on Tuesday announced new details for their plan to overhaul literacy ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Gov. Mike DeWine is wading into the reading wars – the decades-long debate over how to teach children to read. In introducing his two-year budget proposal late last month, DeWine ...

Starting in 2024 the public schools in Fort Mill, South Carolina, will shift the way young children are taught to read — switching from a “balanced literacy” approach to one that zeroes in on phonics ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Massachusetts parents who claimed their children were harmed by contested reading curricula designed by three prominent literacy experts.