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 ...

Just Right Reader recently launched Science of Reading Take-Everywhere Games, a collection of more than 375 hands-on literacy ...

For the first time, a majority of elementary teacher education programs have adopted the tenets of reading science in their curriculum. According to the latest "Teacher Prep Review" by the National ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...