Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise.

By Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press

The first five years of a child’s life are critical for language exposure, but studies suggest children in lower-income families often don’t experience the rich literary environment wealthier kids do. A New York City initiative trying to close that gap…

By Lisa Stark, Education Week

The struggle to educate the nation's children in urban schools has long been an area of reform. In a continuing series of reports on urban school reform, John Merrow returns to New Orleans schools to examine how young students are…