Each month, Dayton Daily News reporter Eileen McClory highlights local ideas that improve outcomes for students and teachers in the Dayton area.

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy ...

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country as national testing results keep documenting.  Illiteracy rates are rising:  The ...

One criticism of the science of reading is that phonics can be boring. Gee Macrory, a British scholar, says that decodable ...

A 10-hour course for educators creates a common language for teaching phonemic awareness across all grade levels.

This year marks the English novelist's 250th birthday. Her hundreds of surviving letters—both real and fictional—offer ...