But the current policy conversation has begun to blur them with a different question: how dyslexia itself should be defined. In several recent debates about dyslexia policy and definitions—including ...

Two groups have aimed to find consensus in one contested area of the ongoing reading wars: what the “science of reading” should look like for English learners. In a statement released in October, The ...

A number of foundational skills contribute to students’ growth toward skilled reading. Among those is phonics knowledge, or knowledge of the relationship between alphabetic symbols in print and sounds ...

The reading wars have become a tool used to further polarize and divide an already fraught educational climate, and the victims of this war are our nation’s students. At the forefront of conversations ...

In case parents needed another reason to police their children's screen time, new research shows that social media use is hurting preteens' memory and reading skills. The new study, published Monday ...

As director of the Language, Education and Reading Neuroscience Lab, communication sciences and disorders Prof. Elizabeth Norton’s work bridges neuroscience and education to better understand language ...

Reading development in children is a complex process that integrates cognitive, linguistic, and socio‐emotional components. Over the years, research has illuminated the ways in which early literacy ...

Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written language is ancient — we’ve been at it for roughly 5,000 years — it’s not an ...

The mission of our English Language Arts Department is for staff, families, and community members to work in partnership to ensure that all students have adequate and equitable access to high-quality ...