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.

Jeffrey McQuillan claims that encouraging phonics instruction will be a “train wreck” in California (Letters, Oct. 3). Yet his main piece of evidence, a 2020 analysis, is wanting. Aside from some ...

There are few things people on both sides of the political aisle agree on nowadays, but one is that ditching phonics-based instruction for reading has been a disaster. Even California is now following ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

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 ...

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...

This carticle was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A bill that could reshape literacy education in California elementary schools cleared a major hurdle in the ...

SPOILER ALERT: Details follow for Season 13, Episode 11 of “The Masked Singer,” “Soundtrack of My Life Night,” which aired April 23 on Fox. Well, I’ll be. Edwin McCain, the singer/songwriter behind ...

Fox's competition reality series, The Masked Singer, released its latest episode, titled Soundtrack of My Life Night, on April 23. The judging panel consists of established artists like Robin Thicke, ...

Ken Jeong may have made his fellow “The Masked Singer” panelists groan and roll their eyes once again when he guessed Nessy was Sting last week, but for Nessy himself, it was a guess he welcomed, ...

LOS ANGELES - It was a "Soundtrack of My Life" night on Wednesday’s new episode of "The Masked Singer," with the top 5 contestants battling it out for a coveted spot in the semi-finals. "The Masked ...