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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing ...

Our focus is on skills, not tools. What do we want students to learn? That comes first,” says Bill Bass, innovation ...

Require every teacher, regardless of grade level or content area, to receive evidence-based training in the science of ...

Nearly a quarter of third graders did not pass the state’s reading test on their first try. Many are now in summer school, ...

SPIRE brings a hands-on, multisensory approach to today’s classrooms, and with SPIRE now approved for use in Florida’s K-3 classrooms, we’re thrilled that more educators and students will have access ...

Phonics, a method that teaches the connection between letters and sounds, is at the center of a new push by California lawmakers to close the state’s early childhood literacy gap. A bill backed by ...

We've gathered some of the best apps, games, and websites for building your kids' reading skills. Together, these resources cover reading skills from letter recognition, phonics, and sight words to ...

Threads has taken another step towards decoupling from Instagram by introducing its own word blocking filters. Instagram head ...

Meta's latest update for Threads adds a mute list that is similar to Instagram. Users may set what words are to be hidden on their feed and even adds an option to set a custom time limit for the ...