5 Insights on Getting the ‘Science of Reading’ into Classrooms
Posted: October 10, 2022The legislative movement aims to bring teaching in line with what advocates are calling the “science of reading”—the body of research on how children learn to read text. Many of the practices that schools currently use, and that are promoted by popular reading programs, do not align with this evidence base.
Education Week’s new series of stories looks deeply at how the attempt to change teaching practice at scale is unfolding on the ground. The collection examines the national landscape and dives deep into the experience of one state—North Carolina— as it implemented a new reading law this past school year.