The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...

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 ...

Reading comprehension is crucial for success in school and society but can be difficult for children initially. Decodable texts are widely believed to help by focusing on taught letter-sound ...

For more than two decades, national tests have been informing educators that nearly 3 in 10 8th graders lack basic mastery in reading. An April RAND report underscores the persistence of that issue—it ...

The most recent round of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results delivered a familiar gut punch: Just 30 percent of eighth graders in the United States read at or above the ...

Despite beliefs to the contrary, there has been no scientific evidence for extrasensory perception (ESP). In other words, humans can’t actually read others’ minds, send messages across time and space ...

Any parent who has watched a child learning to read knows that it is a journey. Various skills and processes must come together and build "brick by brick" before a child can read a text and answer ...