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The list contains 11 curriculums reviewed by the DPI and the nine-member Early Literacy Curriculum Council.

Partnership between the district and the nonprofit Oakland REACH addresses a tutor shortage by training parents and neighbors in phonics and placing them in K-2 classrooms. Initial results are positive with lots of room for improvement.

West Contra Costa Unified School District has set up a new literacy task force to answer long-held questions about the best ways to teach students how to read.

West Contra Costa Unified will study its literacy instruction practices this year to come up with a comprehensive plan to improve students' reading skills.

Michelle Rodriguez is the finalist to be Stockton Unifieds next superintendent. The board will vote to hire the Pajaro Valley Unified leader June 6.

EASTHAMPTON — With their backs against pillows and their outstretched legs crossed side by side on the floor, two kindergarten students read books out loud to one another in the corner of Jessica Sico’s classroom. All the while, their fingers follow...

Strong parent-teacher partnerships and evidence-based reading strategies are key, panelists said at a roundtable hosted by EdSource.

Here are the stories of four schools and how they are teaching the youngest students how to read. The schools are among the 70 lowest-performing in the state. They are sharing in $50 million in extra funding that settled a lawsuit accusing the state of failing to teach literacy.

Nystrom Elementary ditched a popular, yet criticized curriculum and put a greater focus on phonics to improve students' reading skills.

Hillsborough schools try consistency to shore up student reading levels Marlene Sokol, Tampa Bay Times © Times staff/Tampa Bay Times/TNS Terry Connor is deputy superintendent and chief academic officer for the Hillsborough County Public Schools. TAMPA — What if an elementary school had only five third-graders who could read on grade level? Or four fourth-graders. Or two in the fifth grade? Data released by the Hillsborough County School District shows dozens of results like...