As of November, 2024, 40 states have adopted “science of reading” legislation designed to raise student reading performance. However, 2024 4th grade NAEP reading scores went down compared to previous years. Maybe it’s time to rethink the wisdom of mandating SoR curricula as “transformative”

Honestly, I feel like the best thing to do right now is to remind yourself that you're not alone and be amongst people who have actual moral integrity.

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Proud to publish this piece with Chris Leider (@cmleider.bsky.social). We ask educational psychologists to consider students’ “dynamic idiolects” to better understand reading development and achievement. First 50 downloads are free! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EAP95...

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Resist analyzing this as an actual policy position.

Any upper elementary teachers out there who want a free and effective language-based reading curriculum are welcome to check out CLAVES (www.clavescurriculum.net). CLAVES can be used on its own or as a curricular supplement. It was designed with and for multilingual students and their teachers.

Core Knowledge Language Arts is a “science of reading” curriculum whose lead editor is E.D. Hirsch. If your district adopts this curriculum while simultaneously talking about “culturally sustaining pedagogy”, please ask whose culture is being sustained in the name of the “science of reading”.

The office door of my 2016 research team. There will be new bans. It will be the same resistance.