Recently in Oklahoma City, a House subcommittee advanced House Bill 4420 — one of more than a dozen serious literacy bills ...

Since the school district implemented a new phonics program in Bradley Elementary School, 80% of the kids are now reading above grade level.

Teachers and researchers identify three barriers to finding reading materials that meet these students' needs—and how to ...

You know that FitTok is a huge fan of buzzphrases. But seasoned gym girls know that not all social media trends are created equal—let alone worthy of replicating IRL. One that’s having a moment as of ...

This month's stock market losses won't be the last of the bloodletting, according to Raymond James. Stocks are on pace to close out a brutal month. Although November is usually a seasonally strong ...

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist Gasper Begus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project ...

LONDON, 30 October 2025 – The ‘literacy crisis’ is complex, but two things are clear: some teachers lack confidence in teaching literacy effectively and some children are not learning foundational ...

At our Title I high school in Los Angeles, CA–where over 90 percent of students face economic hardship–we are uniquely autonomous from any feeder grade schools, which means we have no influence on ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

On April 9, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel on the decoding threshold, a key but little-known indicator for elementary and middle school students’ reading ability. The panel featured a ...