Although debate about transforming Vermont’s educational system has filled our news headlines for months, we are pleased to ...

Unfortunately, K-3 literacy instruction, on which so much depends, is often a misguided, inefficient mess. While it consumes a generous portion of the school day, ...

California is moving closer to eliminating the unpopular Reading Instruction Competence Assessment for teachers and replacing it with a performance assessment based on a new set of literacy standards ...

Many elementary school classrooms incorporate touch and movement into reading lessons. But research on the practice is ...

The National Reading Panel Report’s section on alphabetics (phonics) instruction was based on 38 research studies, only one of which studied an English learner population: 93 native speakers of ...

“It's really important to use research-based practices because our time in school is really limited,” said Professor David Coker, who teaches courses in CEHD’s School of Education (SOE) on writing and ...

Between 2019 and 2022, more than 200 laws to reform reading instruction were enacted in 45 states and the District of Columbia, according to a report by the Albert Shanker Institute. But, according to ...

One reason for our flawed system of literacy instruction is that we’ve used “reading” to cover two very different things: decoding and comprehension. Professor Alan Kamhi has proposed redefining the ...

Some states are adopting a new form of reading instruction to combat falling scores A surge of state laws and policies are encouraging schools to adopt a new approach to reading instruction -- it ...

Since 1986, Literacy Outreach has worked on helping adults in need of basic English literacy instruction and other skills. “We train volunteers to help those in need,” said Martha Fredenall, the ...