News and Research…
NEWS
1.30.23 SAPORTA REPORT, Beyond Proficiency to the Construction of Each Child’s Deep Reading Brain
9.30.21 The Truth About Reading: The Invisible Crisis in Plain Sight, John Corcoran Foundation
3.23.21 Education Week, The Coming Literacy Crisis: There’s No Going Back to School as We Knew It
11.4.20 Amplify Science of Reading Podcast, The Right to Read Project on nurturing automatic readers: Margaret Goldberg and Alanna Mednick
10.16.20 APM Reports, Influential literacy expert Lucy Calkins is changing her views
8.6.20 APM Reports, Podcast with Emily Hanford, What the Words Say, Many kids struggle with reading – and children of color are far less likely to get the help they need
2.3.20 School Library Journal, Reading Levels Unfairly Label Learners, Say Critics. And Then There’s the Research.
1.27.20 APM REPORTS, Podcast with Emily Hanford, Experts Say Widely Used Reading Curriculum is Failing Kids
12.5.19 New York TImes, There’s a Right Way to Teach Reading, and Mississippi Knows It
12.3.19 Education Week The Most Popular Reading Programs Aren’t Backed By Science
12.1.19 Seattle TImes, What happened when schools used science to revamp how reading is taught
11.26.19 The RIght to Read Project: Dear Lucy (Caulkins)
11.1.19 APM Reports, Podcast with Emily Hanford, National Assessment shows more K-12 students struggling to read.
10.30.19 NY Times Reading Scores on National Exam Decline in Half the States Why isn’t this a major news piece?!
10.22.19 Voyager Sopris, An Interview with Emily Hanford of APM Reports, American Schools are Failing Students with Dyslexia: What Can We Do About it?
8.22.19 APM Reports, At a Loss for Words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be flawed readers
7.8.19 Seattle Times, Education Lab, Students with Dyslexia Struggle in Washington: Will a Fresh Approach to Reading Instruction Be Enough?, Learning to Read and Explicit Teaching
5.6.19 Teacher Magazine (AU), Learning to Read and Explicit Teaching
3.11.19 Education Week, What Teachers Should Know About the Science of Reading, An Interview with Emily Hanford (YouTube)
research
According to The Reading League, the research on the neuroscience of reading has been converging for over 30 years. And it’s indisputable what must be done. Through increased collaboration among the scientific community, higher education, publishers, school administrators, and teachers; we can, we must, begin to embrace the science of reading.
(More research articles are forthcoming. This website is a work in progress!)
April 2021, International Literacy Assoc., K. Ray, K. Dally, K. Colyvas, & A. Lane, The Effects of a Whole-Class Kindergarten Handwriting Intervention on Early Reading Skills
Autumn 2019 Learning Difficulties Australia Bulletin, V. Berninger & K. Harman James, Brain Research shows why handwriting should be taught in the computer age
June 2019, June Vol 8, Issue 2, International Dyslexia Association, L. Spear-Swerling, Here’s Why Schools Should use Structured Literacy
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