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 ...

The best way to build knowledge is to immerse children in social studies, science, and the arts — the very subjects that have been marginalized to make more time for comprehension skill practice, ...

George Orwell once wrote that restating the obvious is the “first duty of intelligent people.” In that vein, allow us to restate the case for what may be literacy instruction’s richest but ...

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...

A high level of literacy in both print and digital media is required for negotiating most aspects of 21st-century life—supporting a family, education, health, civic participation, and competitiveness ...

California is moving closer to eliminating the unpopular Reading Instruction Competence Assessment for teachers and replacing it with a performance assessment based on a new set of literacy standards ...

Improving literacy instruction is once again in fashion among America’s policy circles. Between 2019 and 2022, state legislatures passed more than 200 bills that sought to push and pull public schools ...

In the two-year state budget he’s proposed, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is asking the General Assembly to heavily invest in reading instruction as a cornerstone of Ohio’s schooling. In doing so, the ...

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and Gov. Gavin Newsom have released a comprehensive suite of resources designed to enhance literacy instruction and support teachers statewide ...