By Ellen Gelman Imagine being a high school student sitting in a room where everyone around you seems to understand texts that to you feel like a foreign language. Imagine knowing you’re smart, ...

Broadcom’s steepest three-day drop in over five years has the chip maker falling down the ranks of the largest U.S. companies. Shares of Broadcom AVGO lost 5.6% on Monday, capping a 17.7% three-day ...

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Alice Bradbury receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust which funds the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy at UCL. She is a member of the Labour Party and the Universities and College Union. The ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

You write that “California Learns From Mississippi” (Review & Outlook, Sept. 27) on phonics, but I fear you give too much credit to Golden State legislators. Assembly Bill 2222, proposed in 2024, ...

First-grader Mary Greer shows her work during a phonics-based reading lesson at Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) The “reading wars” that ...

There are few things people on both sides of the political aisle agree on nowadays, but one is that ditching phonics-based instruction for reading has been a disaster. Even California is now following ...

Trying to distinguish between the emails directly sent to me and which ones I was just being Cc’d into in my Outlook Inbox used to take me a heap of time. I’d need to wade through each one and read ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

In the pantheon of prestige rap, it never gets fancier than a Clipse reunion. While Pusha T and Malice predated the whole “play this street rapper at New York Fashion Week” motif, their stylishly ...

Few decisions a society makes are as consequential as how it teaches children to read. Children who can’t read proficiently by third grade are far more likely to fall behind, drop out of high school ...