This is the 12th story in an occasional series on a dramatic national push to revamp the teaching of reading in the earliest grades. This special report has examined how California, despite ...

As more states and districts are embracing the “science of reading,” some educators and advocates have raised the question: Will these methods work for English-language learners? The “science of ...

This is the first time since the 2020–21 school year that early reading readiness has failed to improve year over year, ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

Two prominent California advocacy organizations for English learners are firmly opposing a new state bill that would mandate that reading instruction be aligned with the “science of reading,” saying ...

Grouping English learners together in classrooms, a longstanding practice in schools, has no impact -- positive or negative -- on reading development for elementary school students, shows a new study ...

Under the leadership of Education Secretary Sonny Angara, the Department of Education rolled out the Bawat Bata Makababasa Program (BBMP), which an independent evaluation found to have led to improved ...

This article is part of the collection: Data Bytes: Parsing Education Data Into Snack-Size Servings. Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that ...