Reforms rooted in the “science of reading” improved student test scores by the equivalent of a quarter of a year of learning, a new study from California shows—providing some of the first ...

Education Week rounds up the biggest stories of the year in reading policy and practice.

The state's worst performing schools improved after 'science of reading' reforms, using phonics, were paired with ongoing support, analysis and parent buy-in.

Schools are on the right path with the science of reading, but students and teachers will need ongoing support to continue that trend.

The new “science of reading” movement, explained A huge shift in how kids are taught to read is underway. But the reading wars probably aren’t gone for good.

Likewise, many decisions about teaching reading are necessarily practical and informed only marginally by the science of underlying reading processes. Phonics, again, is a good example.

Steve Graham, The Sciences of Reading and Writing Must Become More Fully Integrated, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 55, Special Issue Part 1: The Science of Reading Supports, Critiques, and ...

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 ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been ...