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 ...

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 ...

Teaching a child to read is all about “decoding,” a fundamental skill in which readers sound out unfamiliar words. While it may seem like a fancy educational term — and some parents will hear it a ...

With the new school year now rolling, teachers and school leaders are likely being hit with a hard truth: Many students are not proficient in reading. This, of course, presents challenges for students ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...