Mary Lee Griffin is an assistant professor of education at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. How bad is this national reading crisis we keep hearing and reading about? Federal officials, citing the ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City is changing the way it teaches reading, getting children hooked on phonics, after Schools Chancellor David Banks concluded public schools have been teaching ...

DANVILLE — As soon as reading specialist Ann Marie Cantore told the kindergarten students they were going to review the short i, they responded with “Itchy,” for Itchy the worm with a white fuzzball ...

It’s back to basics, with a twist. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein unveiled his new reading and math curriculums yesterday, promising more Dick and Jane and less fuzzy math – while still letting ...