How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...
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The decoding threshold is a key barrier to reading proficiency in older K-12 students
Foundational decoding skills and their impact on comprehension beyond elementary school offer insights into supporting ...
Children aren’t reading for pleasure according to new research – here’s how you can help them love books
The report found that, when children engage in reading for pleasure (creating time and space to read at home or in school), children feel happy and relaxed, learn new things, learn about other ...
Older struggling readers can benefit from explicit decoding instruction
Early and targeted interventions are critical in helping these students understand increasingly complex tests, a study finds.
New Research from AERDF and ETS Reveals Decoding Threshold is a Key Barrier to Reading Proficiency in Older K-12 Students
Despite expectations that students master basic reading skills by third grade, many continue to struggle with reading into upper elementary school and beyond. A recent study commissioned by the ...
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Reading Interventions for Older Students May Be Missing a Key Component
an initiative that aims to advance foundational reading skills in grades 3-8. “We don’t test students’ foundational literacy skills after 3rd grade as a rule, unless they’ve been flagged ...
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What Happens When Every Teacher in a School Has the Tools to Improve Reading?
In a whole-school literacy initiative, students learn metacognitive tools to help with reading and then apply them across content areas.
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Saturday Citations: Reading comprehension; revisiting tardigrade orthodoxy; restoring universal symmetry
Additionally, researchers say that reading is so easy a brain can do ... which governs language comprehension, rapidly distinguishes between sentences and simple lists of nouns as quickly as ...
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8th Pay Commission: How Much Could Your Salary Increase if Approved?
Following the recent increase in dearness allowance (DA) for July-December, central government employees and pensioners are now eagerly waiting for the news about the 8th Pay Commission.
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8th-Grade Student at Cambridge Street Upper School Dies
An eighth-grade student at Cambridge Street Upper School died by suicide on Oct. 17, according to officials at Cambridge Public Schools. Interim Superintendent David G. Murphy announced the ...
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‘It just lifted me’: new research suggests shared reading groups combat loneliness – and the effects can be astounding
The findings of our research suggest that shared reading groups, where people from all walks of life meet regularly to read and discuss literature, can provide the kind of meaningful social ...
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Basic literacy and numeracy: Why it’s proving so elusive in India
About 20% of our students do not achieve foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) by grade 3, and 6% not even ... couple of very simple paragraphs with comprehension and being able to write ...