The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

In her 2019 book “The Knowledge Gap,” Natalie Wexler argues that a content-rich curriculum allows students to go deeper, ...

Nancy Ichinaga, the principal of an elementary school in the Los Angeles area that uses a phonics-based reading program, told me, "It's like learning a code; we like learning a secret code.

We need phonics and we need great literature," said Mary Coakley-Fields, an associate professor in Manhattanville College's department of literacy and English education, and program coordinator ...