A new study demonstrates unusually robust and beneficial effects on reading achievement among students in schools that teach E.D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum. The working paper offers compel...

Most primary teachers and parents of early-grade children will recognize what we’ve dubbed the “dinosaur effect,” marveling at the capacity of young children to capitalize on their passionate...

Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States, and also perennially ranked among the nation's best.

Five years ago, my team and I set out to understand what goes into effective implementation of high-quality instructional materials. We interviewed leaders and teachers from seventy schools that had...

Good reading requires more than phonics. It also requires comprehension skills, including background knowledge. Yet new state reading laws have almost entirely omitted attention to this issue,...

In the early grades, U.S. schools value reading-comprehension skills over knowledge. The results are devastating, especially for poor kids.

Despite growing momentum toward reform, many literacy experts warn that many serious obstacles lie ahead before a transformation in American reading instruction is likely to take root. 

Teaching our kids to read is about more than sounding out words or summarizing texts. True reading comprehension requires more of students — and of schools.

Instead of arguing over who's right, let's focus attention on expanding knowledge about unresolved instructional issues.

Here's a cheat sheet for understanding what research tells us about how the two disciplines connect in literacy instruction.

Building knowledge - learning about science, history, literature - has many benefits beyond improving reading comprehension. What are they?

Despite growing momentum toward reform, many literacy experts warn that many serious obstacles lie ahead before a transformation in American reading instruction is likely to take root. 

Good reading requires more than phonics. It also requires comprehension skills, including background knowledge. Yet new state reading laws have almost entirely omitted attention to this issue,...

Despite growing momentum toward reform, many literacy experts warn that many serious obstacles lie ahead before a transformation in American reading instruction is likely to take root. 

The

Despite growing momentum toward reform, many literacy experts warn that many serious obstacles lie ahead before a transformation in American reading instruction is likely to take root. 

The complex syntax of written language is often a stumbling block.

An essential reading list for literacy research.

Despite growing momentum toward reform, many literacy experts warn that many serious obstacles lie ahead before a transformation in American reading instruction is likely to take root. 

An essential reading list for literacy research.

By pursuing in-depth knowledge building about specific topics, students are able to show what they can do, not just what they can't.

Comprehension depends on what you already know. Let’s start there.

The consulting group, founded by the popular and controversial literacy icon Lucy Calkins, will soon be shutting its doors.

Pondiscio: Curriculum reform is the one approach that hasn’t yet been tried to break out of an exhausting cycle of failures.

Hint: It has nothing to do with censorship

A new report analyzes reading legislation passed between 2019 and 2022.

Learn where students struggle, what types of materials educators use, and their perceptions of students' stamina and pleasure reading.

‎Show Science of Reading: The Podcast, Ep Special: Why the Science of Reading isn't just about reading with Natalie Wexler - Mar 7, 2023

If Columbia University could be held liable for the harm done to generations of American kids, it would lose its entire $13 billion endowment and more. The least it could do is offer an abject...