The “science of reading” movement pushed forward in 2023, with at least five more states passing new laws designed to bring reading instruction in line with evidence-based practice.

But 30 percent to 40 percent of kids will need the more explicit instruction that is part of the science of reading, said Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at ...

PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better Evidence increases for building students’ background knowledge of the world by Jill Barshay March 11, 2024 March 11, 2024. ... pundits and ...

The new bill, AB 1121, would require all schools to use a method based on the so-called "science of reading," which emphasizes phonics. Last year, an almost identical bill died in the Assembly ...

In response, many schools are rethinking how they teach kids to read. In one New York City first grade classroom, Melissa Vega-Jones goes letter by letter, teaching the specific rules that form ...

Fed up parents, civil rights activists, newly awakened educators and lawmakers are crusading for “the science of reading.” Can they get results? Most children need systematic, sound-it-out ...

Not to mention that the overall reading success of Black kids in Wisconsin has consistently been at or near the bottom of the U.S., and the gap between Black and white kids on reading has ...

In an average year, kids lose about 20% of their progress in reading and 27% in math during the summer, according to a 2020 study of outcomes from 2008 to 2016 in the American Educational Research ...