To the editor: Your editorial on reforming reading instruction highlighted what a disaster “whole language” has been for literacy in our public schools. This movement decades ago to step away from ...

Reading bedtime stories is as important as changing diapers, but there’s a right way to do it. Research shows interactions such as reading and talking to your child can lead to a 30 million word ...

When a Wilmington kindergarten teacher suggested, in a Star-News "Ask the Teacher" column, that a phonics system advertised on television might not be the best gift for an eager kindergarten student, ...