What, exactly, does the “science of reading” mean? The phrase has become popular over the past several years, used as a shorthand for many of the instructional changes schools have adopted to bring ...

The reading wars have become a tool used to further polarize and divide an already fraught educational climate, and the victims of this war are our nation’s students. At the forefront of conversations ...

Progressive educators have always believed that methods of classroom instruction should be based on children’s natural ways of learning; that is, on the ways that children learn in life outside of ...

A narrow definition of what counts as reading ignores the love they have for content such as graphic novels, manga and comics. Identifying with an activity is different from actually doing it. For ...

Or are too many child development experts from prestigious universities getting it wrong? There is a controversy brewing over the definition of reading and whether babies and toddlers can learn to ...