As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...
“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...
Test scores show American students have made no progress in reading for two decades, and experts are speculating on the cause of the stagnation. Here’s one reason that few have focused on: the nature ...
Includes updates and/or revisions. The $1 billion-a-year Reading First program has had no measurable effect on students’ reading comprehension, on average, although participating schools are spending ...
Washington DC – Really Great Reading®, a leader in foundational reading instruction, and OxEd & Assessment (OxEd), a University of Oxford spinout company renowned for their best-in-class solutions for ...
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The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Nearly a half ...
Hyperlexia first appeared in the literature in a 1967 paper describing young children with reading skills exceeding their language comprehension skills (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967). The initial ...
All secondary-age school pupils in year eight (aged 12 and 13) in England will be required by the government to take a reading test. The declared purpose is to help drive up reading standards so that ...