Glorifying consumption | Life of privation | Safeguard bees. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for June 20, 2025.

Roughly 70% of elementary school students in Berlin aren’t reading at their grade level. Some teachers are saying that’s ...

Let’s do it!” That was Alexis Johnson’s reaction when she saw professional learning opportunities focused on computational ...

Reading scores are improving in Alabama, but thousands of third graders could still be held back this year if they can’t catch up over the summer. When adjusted to current benchmarks, about 88% of ...

such as flash cards with a word to learn and photo illustrating it. But phonics was the base. After I became a father my son ...

Jaden Aoeun, left, works with Alexa Barron, a reading support educational assistant at Scott Elementary School in Northeast ...

But it isn't just reading skills that are at an all-time low – it's also the level of enjoyment kids get from reading. While many factors can influence a child's desire to read, parents have the ...

Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state's third ...

Teachers drill students on reading words using phonics concepts like those blends ... has just changed," she said. In one first-grade class at Allendale-Fairfax Elementary, for instance, teacher ...

Previous bills to require a phonics-based approach have died, in part because not everyone agrees that phonics is the best way to teach students whose first language isn’t English. Hernandez’s ...