Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

A popular infographic gives the misleading impression that current approaches to reading comprehension are grounded in science. A simplified version of a decades-old report on reading instruction is ...

Jul. 21—As Austin Wallace learned literacy basics while in kindergarten at Ernie Pyle Elementary last year, his mom, Jamie, was impressed by his progression. Her son was taught ways to sound out words ...

As states have passed new laws requiring changes to how reading is taught, educators and policymakers want to know: Will these mandates actually lead to better student outcomes? At least one ...

Most tests that elementary teachers take to enter the profession don’t adequately measure their knowledge of best practices for reading instruction, a new analysis contends. The report, from the ...

Vermont schools have an unprecedented opportunity to teach all students to read. With the passage of Act 139, an act relating to supporting Vermont’s young readers through evidence-based literacy ...

Kudos to Alvernia University and Commonwealth University Bloomsburg campus for getting teacher preparation right (“While teacher prep programs often fall short, Alvernia gets ‘A,’” Reading Eagle, June ...

“We are seeing our kids grow in their reading … kids are coming to us from kindergarten after having the science of reading so much more fluently than our kids ever had before.” Leaders in these three ...

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