In the world of structured literacy, there are few names that are as recognizable as Barbara Wilson. A renowned literacy expert, Barbara Wilson co-founded Wilson Language Training®, an evidence-backed ...

The NAEP results in late 2022 revealed that reading scores fell for both fourth and eighth grade readers as a result of the pandemic. Only 33 percent of fourth graders are reading proficiently, which ...

Educators have worked for nearly a year to find a new literacy curriculum with vertical alignment throughout the grades and ...

Educator Amber Moye at City Hall: New Haven “shouldn’t be indebted to a system that doesn’t work.” Amber Moye told city lawmakers she and her fellow teachers got a glimpse of how to change the way ...

PROVIDENCE – For decades, elementary teachers have been teaching students to read the wrong way. The approach, called balanced literacy, teaches students to read a word by figuring out the context: ...

Christine Braid consults as a literacy facilitator for Tātai Angitu, Massey University. She received funding from the Ministry of Education for a research project (2015-2017). James Chapman is quoted ...

State School Superintendent Richard Woods has appointed a literacy coaching expert in the Marietta city school system to develop and lead a statewide literacy coaching model in Georgia. As structured ...

Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words. "What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 3—In the fight to improve reading proficiency in New Mexico schools, the state Public Education Department is making ...

Amid a nationwide literacy crisis, New Mexico stands out for its dead last ranking in reading performance on the federally administered nation’s report card. Arsenio Romero has been New Mexico’s ...

At a summit hosted at the governor’s mansion Wednesday, Heather Fleming, director of programs of the New Mexico Literacy Institute, said she was “jazzed.” Fleming is a big believer in “structured ...

Brian Tweed worked for the Ministry of Education as a contractor in 2024 working on the Pāngarau (mathematics) curriculum. Pania Te Maro was contracted by the Ministry of Education as a lead writer ...