"My child can't read!" That's become a common complaint from parents. Why? It might be because kids are distracted by social media and video games. But I think it's also because reading instruction ...

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She asks her students if they can feel the way the words sound as they speak. “Say it again and see if you feel it in your vocal cords,” Fuxa prompts her reading instruction class, held last October.

When the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the Nation’s Report Card, were released by the National Center for Education Statistics in June, alarm ...