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Hugh W. Catts; Alan G. Kamhi – American Educator, 2025
Grassroots efforts and other advocacy have led to the vast majority of states adopting policies designed to improve the reading outcomes of all children, including those who struggle to read. Whereas these policies consider various aspects of reading, much of their emphasis has been on developing word reading accuracy and fluency through explicit…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Educational Policy, Advocacy, Activism
Brooke K. Sassi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation critically examines the Colorado Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act (READ Act) through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis, focusing on the discursive construction of the Act and its impact on educational opportunities for multilingual learners. The study explores the role of power and knowledge in shaping the READ…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Equal Education, Multilingualism, Educational Policy
Aaron Churchill – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2024
In July 2023, Governor DeWine and the General Assembly enacted bold literacy reforms via his budget plan (House Bill 33) that require Ohio elementary schools to follow the Science of Reading starting in 2024-25. This approach to reading instruction emphasizes phonics to help students "decode" words, as well as knowledge- and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Reading, Learning Processes, Reading Instruction
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Stephanie Grote-Garcia; Evan Ortlieb; Sergio Leiva Cardona – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2025
The annual "What's Hot in Literacy" survey identifies current priorities in literacy education, highlighting the evolving landscape of the field. A panel of twenty-five literacy leaders participate in interviews to identify the most emphasized, least emphasized, and most deserving topics of increased attention. The 2024 findings…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Educational Trends, Surveys
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Megan Chaffin; Holly Sheppard Riesco; Kathryn Hackett-Hill; Vicki Collet; Megan Yates Grizzle; Jacob Warren – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2024
Framed by Bakhtinian theories of authoritative discourse and heteroglossia, this study examines perceptions of a Science-of-Reading-based state reading initiative five years into implementation. Using interview transcripts, researchers engaged in polyphonic analysis to bring the voices of teachers, reading interventionists, parents,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Literacy Education, State Programs, Educational Policy
Ariel Lindorff; Jamie Stiff; Heather Kayton – UK Department for Education, 2024
This report outlines the results of the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) in England. PIRLS is an international comparative study directed by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. The aim of PIRLS is to assess and compare the reading performance of pupils in their fourth year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Grade 4, International Assessment
Kelly Robson Foster; Tanvi Kodali; Bonnie O’Keefe; Andrew J. Rotherham; Andy Jacob – Bellwether, 2024
Improving reading instruction is one of the hottest topics in K-12 education today. It is also one of the most complex, encompassing pedagogy, policy, and politics -- all rooted in a long history of arguments about the best way to teach kids to read. This analysis is a primer on the "Science of Reading" and efforts to implement it across…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Educational Trends, Educational Policy, Reading Instruction