On April 9, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel on the decoding threshold, a key but little-known indicator for elementary and middle school students’ reading ability. The panel featured a ...

When students struggle with reading, educators often respond by relying on texts at their “instructional level.” But this well-intentioned approach can slow progress and limit access to the ...

According to the recent Reading First final impact study, children participating in the program did better than their peers in comparison schools on a test of decoding in grade 1, but did no better on ...

SEATTLE — After a long day at school sometimes the last thing our kids want to do is their homework but there are ways to make it easier. That’s what we’re tackling in our latest attempt to "decode" ...