California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

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A few weeks ago, the nation’s largest public school system, New York City, abandoned its current system for teaching kids how to read. archived recording 3 This is not just in New York.

“We are now adopting the Bluebonnet phonics component. So the reading is split into skills and knowledge. Skills is the ...

How kids learn to read has been an ongoing debate. ... My anti-phonics perspective took root in 1991, when I wrote my first feature story as an intern for the Greenfield Recorder in Massachusetts.

Phonics has little or nothing to do with it. It is the same for reading. Yes, effective instruction in phonics and other essential reading skills does help a child learn to read by age 8 or 9.

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Score one huge win for Chancellor David Banks and Mayor Eric Adams: The city Department of Education is at long last insisting that schools use phonics and other proven strategies to teach kids to ...

In 2023, 43% of Oakland County students, nearly 65,000 kids, fell into “the literacy gap,” according to Beyond Basic’s assessment of Michigan Department of Education reports.

Amos: Too many California kids can’t read. Will phonics help? Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade.