New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called “systematic ...

Defiant teachers yesterday vowed to resist the revival of back-to-basics methods of teaching children to read. They are urging schools to retain techniques discredited by a Government-backed review ...

Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...

Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, ripped up the Government's key policy for teaching reading in schools during the past seven years - and insisted on returning to a more "back to basics" approach.