This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Thousands of aspiring teachers are graduating from educator prep programs each year unprepared ...

The National Council on Teacher Quality gave poor ratings to three of Maine’s public universities at a time when reading test scores have been falling.

To teach early readers the sounds of letter combinations, student teacher Martin Heredia connected them to physical movements. He put his finger to his lips to demonstrate “sh.” It makes the sound ...

Literacy educators support a “balanced approach” to teaching early literacy, and are divided when it comes to the importance of foundational skills like phonics instruction, according to a new survey ...

Teachers are being instructed to dedicate just 10 minutes to teaching their students phonics at a northern suburbs school, despite the government’s 25 minute recommendation. From this year, students ...

Teachers will have access to greater resources to adopt a mandated phonics based approach to reading for prep to grade two students following a reported government deal with the teachers union. It’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Council on Teacher Quality rated three Maine universities poorly in 2023 for how they prepared educators to teach ...