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

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

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

Lawmakers in some states are trying to ban the "cueing" approach, which asks students to rely on pictures or context clues to ...

South Dakota officially took a step in a better direction Monday when the state’s Board of Education Standards approved revisions to English Language standards that’ll embrace the use of phonics ...

My daughter is in senior infants and struggling to learn how to read. She gets very upset whenever we do the reading homework ...

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

The school was assessed on several categories, like evidence of student literary progress and how the school engages with ...

The elementary school has a high percentage of emergent bilingual students who are learning English as a second language.

Jennifer Murphy, a school psychologist, writes about how state mandates have improved reading scores in Akron - and how to ...

Assembly Bill 1121 by Assembly member Blanca Rubio, D-West Covina, which would require public schools to use phonics-based reading curriculum rather than a whole-language system. The former helps ...