A former Sacramento classroom teacher is tackling the nation’s literacy crisis. In 2020, Chandra Roughton founded Luminous Minds, an educational website and early learning platform.

A vocabulary and phonics lesson is rarely the most exciting part of the school day — unless you’re in Grace Olsson’s first-grade class. There, students clap as they sound out words, hold seated poses ...

The Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools honored Ashley Klier for her 20 years of service and dedication to early ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

Students in class at Lake Marie Elementary School in Whittier, on Nov. 17, 2022. (Photo by Lauren Justice/For Cal Matters) This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their ...

The Office of Personnel Management on Monday finalized a rule that would permit agencies to use forced distribution to rate the performance of members of the Senior Executive Service. Under such a ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

4:16 p.m. June 2, 2025: An earlier version of this report incorrectly said teaching phonics was new to Long Beach Unified. Some phonics has been taught in the district for years, but a new focus on ...

Sound it out. Ph-o-n-i-c-s. You use the fundamental skill every day. Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a ...

Jonathan Butcher is the Acting Director of the Center for Education Policy and Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, and the author of “Splintered: ...