Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

Reading instruction has been the subject of much debate. Yet, five decades of research show how to effectively assess and teach reading. As educators take action to align instruction with scientific ...

Now that policies and resources to improve basic reading instruction in the early grades are in place, educators need to turn a sharper focus to a more challenging task: building more complex literacy ...

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