Category: literacy
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Leveled Reading Instruction Destroys Equity
Teaching students to read with instructional level reading groups keeps marginalized students marginalized. The system must be changed.
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Science of Reading: Will We Ever Learn?
States and school districts are ‘adopting the Science of Reading’ (Schwartz, 2025) as the basis of their early reading programs while critics, such as this recent opinion in the Wall Street Journal, are already saying it doesn’t work despite the incredible results Mississippi schools have achieved using their adopted Science of Reading program. Is this…
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We Know How To Teach All Students to Read: So Why Aren’t We?
Reading is essential for achieving equity in education: ensuring all students have whatever it takes for each of them to master rigorous grade level standards at a minimum. Reading opens the doors to all the other academic disciplines. We have years of data and research that confirms for us that students who fail to learn…
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Acceleration, Not Remediation
Acceleration Supports Equity, Remediation Denys Equity Providing remedial education or instruction to students working below grade level has deep roots in our schools. Continuing such instruction is a problem. The use of remediation continues to deny equity to our marginalized students. Remediation is the concept that something in broken and needs to be fixed. As…
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Does the Science of Reading Create Equity?
Proficiency in reading for all students is essential for establishing equity in schools. Students who are not proficient in reading are much more likely to drop out of school or graduate with a subpar education which in turn increases the probability that as adults they will have diminished employment and opportunities to fully participate and…
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Equity Requires All Students Be Readers
Reading on or above grade level is essential for student equity and student success in school. Learning to read is a complex task. It is not something that all children naturally learn even if they have been exposed to literate rich environments. This differs from how children learn to speak. However, there is a growing…
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Overcoming the Pandemic Learning Gap
As schools across our country are now open for a somewhat ‘normal’ school year, educators are grappling with the incredible learning loss many of our children experienced during the last two school years. The most recent NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress)scores verify what we already knew. Our children have suffered greatly from the isolation…
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Literacy is the Foundation of Equity in Our Schools
Ensuring all students become readers and graduate with high level literacy skills is critical for their ability to earn a living wage as well as for growing our economy.