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 ...

Any parent who has watched a child learning to read knows that it is a journey. Various skills and processes must come together and build "brick by brick" before a child can read a text and answer ...

Last week, Alexis Sorenson introduced her 8th graders to algebraic expressions with a lesson on Greek language roots rather than formulas. Sorenson, a math teacher at Cloquet Middle School in the ...

For more than two decades, national tests have been informing educators that nearly 3 in 10 8th graders lack basic mastery in reading. An April RAND report underscores the persistence of that issue—it ...