En todo Estados Unidos, las escuelas han estado enseñando a leer con un método que no funciona muy bien. Hace décadas que los estudios científicos lo desmintieron. A algunos niños puede causarles...

From 'Classy' to 'The Retrievals,' see TIME's picks for the best podcasts of the year.

In a major shift, the controversial figure in the fight over how to teach reading now says that beginning readers should focus on sounding out words, according to a document obtained by APM Reports.

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based...

Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States, and also perennially ranked among the nation's best.

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based...

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based...

Research shows the vast majority of K-12 parents believe their kids are performing at their grade level when they’re not. To better understand the parent perception gap and how to close it, Amna...

Fed up parents, civil rights activists, newly awakened educators and lawmakers are crusading for “the science of reading.” Can they get results?

If you’re looking for a secret ingredient to explain Mississippi’s rise in reading achievement on the Fourth Grade Reading National Assessment of

This Letter Was Originally Published in The Hechinger Report To the Editor:  Re OPINION: A call for rejecting the newest reading wars Nov. 18, 2022 We are teachers who were sold the very story…

Emily Hanford has been an education reporter for more than a decade and she didn’t know anything about how children learn to read until a few years ago. In t...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased.

A commonly cited use of Learning Styles theory is to use information from self-report questionnaires to assign learners into one or more of a handful of supposed styles (e.g., Visual, Auditory,...

Here’s a reading list put together by Emily Hanford, host and lead producer of our podcast Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong.

Experts warn that most American children learn with ineffective reading curriculums.

The ideas that caused this mess are finally on their way out. I say good riddance.

More than 20 years ago, many reporters missed the importance of a blue-ribbon report that showed how to teach kids more effectively. Today's journalists could still learn from those mistakes.

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This discussion guide, created by a teacher, invites educators, parents, community members and kids to have a conversation about the podcast.

“Flipping a coin would actually be better” for identifying struggling readers, one researcher said of the test created by influential curriculum developers Fountas and Pinnell.

The state’s reliance on cognitive science explains why.

Not a single state requires that administrators prove they understand reading development, write Gail E. Lovette and Kenni L. Alden. Here's why that's such a problem.

Parents like Andrew Dunk say the program, "did more harm than good."

The state shows that poverty is no excuse for failing to teach kids to read.

Even as phonics battles rage in the realm of primary reading and with two-thirds of American fourth and eighth graders failing to read proficiently, another tussle has been with us for ages regarding...

‎Society & Culture · 2024

Literacy lessons are embedded in every academic class. Even in biology.

Retraining on how to teach kids to read is longer and harder for teachers when educator preparation programs don't teach science of reading.

In a major shift, the controversial figure in the fight over how to teach reading now says that beginning readers should focus on sounding out words, according to a document obtained by APM Reports.

‎Education · 2023

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based...

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based...

Here’s a reading list put together by Emily Hanford, host and lead producer of our podcast Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong.

After decades of steadily disappointing scores in reading proficiency, the state turned to legislation to bar practices rooted in whole language

This is one in a series of intermittent posts about issues that arise in trying to use research in cognitive science and neuroscience about reading, language, learning, development and related topi…

The purpose of reading, according to Elder and Paul (2006:3) is to ‘figure out what an author has to say on a subject’. This ‘figuring out’, or reading comprehension as we know it in schools, has...

APM Reports strives to raise awareness, trigger debate and prompt positive change via non-partisan, independent investigative and documentary journalism.

As I listen to new podcast episodes related to the science of reading, I will add the most useful episodes to their respective categories. I hope you'll come back to this page often as you

All kinds of kids, from all kinds of families — rich, poor and middle class — need more help with reading than they’re getting in school.

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based...

The education professors double down on a flawed approach that encourages pictures and context to read words. Heinemann — their publisher — faces harsh criticism.

The Education Minister confirms long running reading recovery programme will end under new literacy plan. Labour says the devil is in the detail.

A false assumption about what it takes to be a skilled reader has created deep inequalities among U.S. children, putting many on a difficult path in life.

Oregon’s 15 educator preparation programs offer different reading instruction methods to future teachers and some teach flawed methods.

A false assumption about what it takes to be a skilled reader has created deep inequalities among U.S. children, putting many on a difficult path in life.

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based...

Paying attention to science can increase reading scores in America.

For all the welcome attention being paid to the Science of Reading, and literacy in general, there has been little focus in public policy on how to address the learning needs of secondary students...

In this no-nonsense guide, primary reading expert and classroom teacher Lindsay Kemeny shares seven ways K-3 teachers can modify what they are currently doing to transform their reading instruction....

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based...