On April 9, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel on the decoding threshold, a key but little-known indicator for elementary and middle school students’ reading ability. The panel featured a ...

Reading comprehension is crucial for success in school and society but can be difficult for children initially. Decodable texts are widely believed to help by focusing on taught letter-sound ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...

Q: I want to share my suggestions for the parents of children who have difficulty reading or don’t enjoy reading, because I also had difficulty reading as a child and young adult. I didn’t remember ...

Foundations for Speech, Language, Reading and Spelling® program provides high-intensity instruction supported by randomized controlled trial evidence and grounded in brain development science—frequent ...

Teaching reading has always been a subject of debate, a debate that involves a balancing act of multiple factors. Currently, the “reading wars” are best embodied by debates that are centered on the ...

The reading wars have become a tool used to further polarize and divide an already fraught educational climate, and the victims of this war are our nation’s students. At the forefront of conversations ...

Stanford’s Educational Opportunity Project report on the decade’s decline in reading scores should have us adults asking one question: Why have we done this to our children?

In a recent experiment, researchers used large language models to translate brain activity into words. By Oliver Whang Think of the words whirling around in your head: that tasteless joke you wisely ...