California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

A panel of experts told EdSource on Tuesday that for English language learners, it’s important to balance phonics and other reading skills all students need with opportunities to grow students’ ...

“We are now adopting the Bluebonnet phonics component. So the reading is split into skills and knowledge. Skills is the ...

Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade.

On July 1, the unpopular Reading Instruction Competence Assessment will be replaced with a performance assessment to ensure ...

Only 38% of fourth grade students were reading at a proficient level in 2022, and there was no improvement two years later, according to the National Assessment for Educational Progress' biannual ...

Part of learning to read should be learning to love books – and enjoyment in reading is linked to higher achievement. If children don’t like reading, how we teach it to them isn’t working.

All grade 1 students will be tested early in 2023, in a session with a teacher applying an online English assessment tool that uses phonics to gauge the child’s reading ability.

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 ...