EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing Controversies over how best to teach children to read go back many years. Most recently, two questions have emerged that ...

Reading for pleasure has declined by 10 percent since 2003, according to a 2025 American Time Use Survey. There are all kinds of potential explanations for this, from the rise of social media to the ...

Kentucky's Read to Succeed Act, implemented three years ago, aims to improve reading scores through high-quality instruction. A new Kentucky Reading Research Center at the University of Louisville is ...

It’s been a big year for reading instruction. States have passed—or begun enacting—laws requiring evidence-based teaching for early learners. Hundreds of thousands of teachers have gone through new ...

An effort to overhaul how children learn to read, known as the science of reading movement, is sweeping the country. Here’s where it stands. By Dana Goldstein During an era of intense politicization ...

Nearly two years after lawmakers stripped funding from the University of Kentucky for its statewide reading research center, a new center will open in Louisville, backed by a $6 million grant. The ...

Today’s post is the final one in a three-part series on how teachers can respond to the reading wars. The reading wars are not new. Our profession has debated the best ways to teach children to read ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Low statewide reading scores have sparked many advocates to call for California to adopt a so-called structured literacy curriculum that ...

A little girl stared at a list of test questions in her science class, unable to answer the majority. Resigned, she wrote at the top, “I failed badly” — although she misspelled it, instead writing, “I ...

More than 20 years ago, the federal government released a review of decades of reading research whose findings should have charted a path toward better instruction and higher reading levels. Based on ...