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The science of reading: how brains crack the code
Decades of research point to one skill at the center of learning to read — and it explains why classrooms keep changing.

Decades of research point to one skill at the center of learning to read — and it explains why classrooms keep changing.

National tests show a real reading slide: 31 percent of fourth-graders at Proficient, more adults at the lowest levels. The crisis label depends on the bar.

Dual-language classrooms are often praised and often doubted. The honest picture is more measured than either camp suggests.

The word shows up in every school brochure. Here is what it actually means, and how to tell a real change from a renamed one.