Reading News

Superintendent Searches are underway in Dorchester, Kent, Howard, Montgomery and Somerset Counties! These are the most important decisions the school board members, who YOU ELECT, will make. Maryland READS drafted a letter to send to each school board encouraging them to focus on important leadership qualities that research shows are critical to improving reading outcomes…

The Maryland State Board of Education announced yesterday the formal appointment of Dr. Carey Wright as the new Maryland Superintendent of Schools. Join us in celebrating the commitment that our former board president is making to the children of our state. Dr. Wright came home to Maryland to retire and spend time with her family,…

BALTIMORE (January 23, 2024)  The Maryland State Board of Education called for the statewide adoption and implementation of literacy instruction based on the Science of Reading starting with the 2024-25 academic year. Under the State Board resolution (24-01), Dr. Carey Wright, Interim State Superintendent of Schools, will present the board with a comprehensive literacy policy aligned…

LaTonya Goffney is superintendent of the Aldine Independent School District in Houston, Texas. Sonja Santelises is CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools. Iranetta Wright is superintendent of Cincinnati Public Schools. All three are members of Chiefs for Change, a nonprofit bipartisan network of school superintendents and state education leaders. America is finally acknowledging a harsh truth:…

States have passed—or begun enacting—laws requiring evidence-based teaching for early learners. Hundreds of thousands of teachers have gone through new training. A popular curriculum program was re-released with changes designed to bring it more in line with reading research, to mixed reviews. These shifts all stem from the movement around the “science of reading”—an effort…

MEMPHIS — For much of his life, Roderick, a high school junior, did not enjoy reading. As a boy, he trudged through picture books that his mother encouraged him to read. As a teenager, he has sometimes wrestled with complex texts at school. “I would read, and I’d go back and reread,” he said. “It’s…

Just in the nick of time for the last days of summer beach reading, there were a pair of big stories about reading instruction in TIME magazine and The New Yorker last month. That’s about as mainstream as media attention gets, and signals that maybe the tide really has turned on literacy instruction in American…

Over the past several years, more states have passed laws or implemented other policies requiring schools to use evidence-based methods for teaching young students how to read. These mandates touch on many different components of instruction, including teacher training, curriculum, and how students are identified for extra support. The legislative movement gained steam after Mississippi…

By accepting hard truths and embracing accountability, the nation’s poorest state became a national exemplar in math and reading growth. The 2019 data release from the National Assessment of Educational Progress didn’t offer news of much progress. The test, administered in schools biannually since 1969, had shown only lackluster academic growth in most states for…