A decade ago, Washington, D.C., was hailed as a national model for education reform. The charter school sector, which now serves almost half of all public school students in the city, was expanding ...

"Can you imagine if someone told you that everything you've been taught in school and everything you've been doing for the past 20 years is flawed?" Monica Covington-Cradle of the AIM Institute for ...

For decades, many primary school teachers have been using curriculum materials designed by Lucy Calkins, the founding director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from SmartDaily. Followed categories will be added to My News. But as teaching philosophies fall in and out of favour, it can be confusing when focus falls on an ...

The front page story in the Feb. 23 Daily Progress (“Back to Basics”), about teaching phonics, caught my eye immediately. On the surface, phonics looks like a great idea. Just below the surface, it is ...

Dear Extra Credit: At the beginning of the school year, I asked my child's kindergarten teacher about the reading curriculum. I got an ambiguous answer. Further questioning revealed no more, but the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she will push for schools in the state to reemphasize phonics in literacy education programs, a potential overhaul that comes as many ...

But as teaching philosophies fall in and out of favour, it can be confusing when focus falls on an unfamiliar method. Phonics is the new in vogue technique, which means teaching the relationship ...