Office of English Language Acquisition Seeks Public Comment

The Department of Education is proposing new priorities, requirements, and definitions in the National Professional Development (NPD) program that would grow our numbers of...

Bantu Boost Back in Kansas

The Promise of Automated Writing Evaluation for English Learners

Automated writing evaluation (AWE) encompasses a range of educational technology tools that facilitate the teaching and learning of writing. These tools offer immediate automated feedback, including improvement suggestions and quality ratings, which are generated by algorithms trained to simulate human feedback and ratings. Findings from several studies, including research syntheses, indicate that AWE helps students improve their writing skills,...

I Teach Content in Secondary Schools. Do I Need to Teach Reading?

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Drawing from Strengths

Alina moved to the US from Irpin, Ukraine,...

Can Minority Serving Institutions Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

“You may find some superficial changes in terms of science books where you see more Black kids or Native American kids in the chapters,...

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Taking a Stand!

In 1974 the Lau v. Nichols Supreme Court decision stated: “There is no equality of treatment merely by providing students with the same facilities, textbooks, teachers and curriculum… for students who do not understand English are effectively foreclosed from any meaningful education.” Nearly 50 years later, we have concrete research, policies, and pedagogy to support and enhance the oral and...

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Science of Reading Inclusion

According to more than 25 years of research by the National Institutes of Health and Studies at Yale University, Dyslexia affects one in five people1. The American Academy of Pediatrics2 states that dyslexia is the most common...

Taking a Stand!

In 1974 the Lau v. Nichols Supreme Court decision stated: “There is no equality of treatment merely by providing students with the same facilities,...

Indiana Proposes Reading Requirement

Indiana lawmakers are supporting a bill to require Science of Reading (SoR) curricula in all the state’s schools, following the example of neighboring Ohio,...

Literacy Education in 2023

If you were tasked to pick one word to guide your work as a literacy changemaker in the new year, what would it be?...

Multiliteracies and Multilingual Learners

Equipped with Miami Linguistic Readers, Camino de la Escuela, and my own ingenuity, my young multilingual learners and I dived into what we believed...

The Science of the Bilingual Reading Brain

“We are plural. The I is an illusion:...

A Road to Reading

We have learned the past 20 years, through cognitive science research, that over 90% of students can learn to read at grade level by...

Connecticut to Require Science of Reading

Connecticut has become the latest state to pass legislation requiring that reading instruction be based on the science of reading. According to the state’s...

The Science of Reading in Dual Language

“Literacy has two beginnings: one, in the world, the...

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Haitian Creole is a Living Language

Haitian Creole has faced dismissive attitudes and linguistic...
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