The "Nation's Report Card" provides periodic snapshots of fourth and eighth-grade student academic performance across Indiana and the country in reading and math.

The Bluebonnet Learning curriculum is a bad idea for Texas' public schools, not because of its references to Christianity, but because it is age-inappropriate and could negatively impact reading ...

America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made ...

Columnist Will Sutton is happy with the recently announced Louisiana school rankings, and he's cheering for a special group.

A study showed that elementary and middle school students aren't making sufficient progress to recover the learning losses ...

While the highest-performing students started to regain lost ground, lower-performing students fell further behind.

Using research-based methods rooted in the science of reading, we focus on foundational skills like phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Students move at their own pace, ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and ... of research has shown that phonics instruction—showing children ...

Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared on Variety, The New York Post, and The Wrap. A four-year-old boy was killed ...

Anchoring the west side of Indianapolis, the White River State Park offers 250 acres of green space dotted with memorials and museums as the Central Canal and the White River offer waterways in ...

So why don’t we test for it in the United States? England does. Starting in 2012, the Brits started giving a phonics check to all 6-year-olds. At the end of their first year of school (equivalent to ...