New research led by a team from Royal Holloway and the World Bank asserts that teaching methods should improve, after discovering that global literacy goals will not be met without major intervention.

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

When the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the Nation’s Report Card, were released by the National Center for Education Statistics in June, alarm ...

Methods of K-12 teaching encompass diverse strategies and techniques utilized by educators to engage students across different subjects and grade levels. What are the 5 methods of teaching? From ...

Teaching techniques refer to the diverse array of strategies and methodologies employed by educators to engage students and facilitate effective learning experiences. What are some examples of ...

Educators are rethinking how reading should be taught in schools. New research has highlighted flaws in decades-old methods. As a result, dozens of states have passed laws or implemented new policies ...

JEFFERSON CITY — A new Missouri Senate bill looks to ban a method of teaching literacy called "three-cueing." The method, also called MSV (meaning, syntax, visual), is a strategy of teaching kids to ...

Research shows there are science-backed ways to help students learn to read, but not all teachers are trained in the best way to do so. In... Teacher training programs don't always use research-backed ...

An ongoing effort in New York state to encourage schools to adopt the “science of reading” is seeing some early success, according to a new survey, with the majority of educators reporting that their ...

Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

In October 2022, Mississippi reported some exhilarating news. After the state started using phonics to teach reading in 2013, its fourth-grade reading scores jumped from 49th to 29th in the nation, ...