More than half of third-graders did not meet the state’s bar for reading proficiency last spring, while fourth- and ...

The once-abandoned instructional approach is back in place in South Dakota in hopes of improving students’ reading comprehension.

It’s out with the new and in with the old again for students in South Dakota’s English and Language Arts classrooms.

We look forward to the day when these dismal reading proficiency scores are viewed as a scandal rather than encouraging news.

Prioritizing phonics gives short shrift to those other skills ... He championed a screening test for dyslexia, which will be given to all kindergarten-through-second-graders starting this fall; ...

Prioritizing phonics gives short shrift to those other skills ... He championed a screening test for dyslexia, which will be ...

Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a wide-sweeping district restructuring, phonics lessons will be ...

Last September, my newly three-year-old daughter strode into preschool for the first time, sporting a ladybug shirt, red pants, and the particular high-wattage, full-dimple grin she usually ...

Her work has previously appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, Miami Herald and NPR. Getty A preschool teacher has been arrested after being accused of raping a 3-year-old at a South Dakota daycare she ...