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At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can ...

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Patti Ghezzi is a former education reporter. In a guest column today, Ghezzi writes about the big story she says she missed while covering schools — the phonics story.

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.

How phonics is making a comeback as millions of kids struggle to read "I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said.

Letters to the Editor: Phonics gets kids over an early reading hump. What happens after that? A teacher works with sixth- and seventh-graders on a phonics lesson in Poway, Calif., in January 2020.

There are alternatives to England’s focus on synthetic phonics, which teaches children to decode words by learning the relationship between letters and sounds.

Fed up parents, civil rights activists, newly awakened educators and lawmakers are crusading for “the science of reading.” Can they get results?

It’s how kids were taught to read throughout most of history. “There is science behind proving that a phonics-based curriculum actually gets kids reading,” Good says.