By early June, a week before school was due to let out for summer, Jaden had progressed to reading full sentences with practiced ease, a huge leap forward. The nearly concluded school year is the ...

Governor Gavin Newsom traveled to the city of Compton to announce a new statewide literacy program for California students.

Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state's third ...

O'Brien: The only way to catch older students up is to wrap literacy lessons into every grade and subject. But faculty ...

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use ...