Soon after her son started first grade at Vallecito Elementary School in Terra Linda last fall, Dawn Patrice noticed something had changed. “He started really resisting going to school,” Patrice said ...
Half of the students in Chambersburg Area School District cannot read by the end of third grade. The district is shifting from "balanced literacy" to "structured literacy," which focuses on phonics. A ...
One of the animating goals of The Next 30 Years is to introduce readers—whether policymakers, practitioners, or anyone else concerned with improving student outcomes—to voices they may not yet know, ...
In a seismic shift based on cognitive science, two of the world's most influential teacher training institutions declare, “We are not teaching balanced literacy.” In recent months, Teachers College, ...