Schools still face obstacles with the popular approach, including that implementation and teacher supports focus mainly on younger students.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio students' reading scores rose slightly last school year, the first the science of reading was mandated, but it's too soon to ...

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EXEMPLAR 1: SEEDS OF SCIENCE/ROOTS OF READING Jacqueline Barber, Lawrence Hall of Science at University of California, Berkeley, shared her insights into developing Seeds of ...

Linnea Ehri, Ph.D., distinguished professor emerita of education psychology at the City University of New York, published a benchmark science-of-reading study in 2014 summarizing decades of her work ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

There’s an old Roman insult that goes like this: “He can’t read or swim.” The presumption is that just about anyone who applied himself (or herself) could learn these skills. Indeed, many countries ...

One of the longest-running education debates — commonly referred to as a war — has been over how to teach reading. It started in the 1800s, when Horace Mann, often called “the father of public ...

A child’s individual differences, skills and experience matter a lot in the learning process, and learning to read is no exception. That’s why new legislation based on the erroneous assumption that ...

A bipartisan bill making the “science of reading” a priority in some federal literacy grants passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, signaling Congress’ growing interest in a movement ...

How does science make progress? How do scientists know what they claim to know? What does it mean when scientists say they have come to a consensus? These questions are far more than academic. We live ...

See a kid curled up with a novel about space aliens instead of swinging on the jungle gym at the park and one word will probably pop into your mind: geek. Maybe that young bookworm will grow up to be ...