A Louisville school for students with dyslexia has been chanting word families in reading classes for years — and a 2025 randomized trial explains why it works for stuck readers. The answer is not the chanting. It is which brain system the rhythm actually reaches.
Four major accrediting agencies now share a framework for special education quality. The framework is genuine progress. It is also voluntary, and “evidence-based instruction” appeared in accreditation standards for decades while accredited schools taught debunked methods. Here is the question that actually matters for your child.
California redirected $5 million from school library databases to fund dyslexia screening. The science on early identification is solid. The equity fallout for lower-income schools is not.
A new category of classroom technology called ambient AI passively monitors students through cameras, microphones, and platform data without any student interaction. Maryland stakeholders are debating adoption now. For children who learn differently, the bias risk is specific, serious, and largely invisible to parents.
When a child refuses school and everyone is treating the anxiety, the question rarely asked is whether writing is driving it. Published research finds learning disabilities, especially the most under-tested one, play a far larger role in school refusal than most families are told.
The federal rule that forces schools to track racial bias in special education identification is scheduled for a rewrite. Specific changes have not been disclosed, but 40 years of research shows the pattern this rule was designed to catch never stops on its own.
Nine states are challenging the enforcement regulations behind Section 504, with briefing closing August 6. Here is what the science shows about when 504 plans work, and what every parent should do right now.
Oklahoma doubled mandatory recess for elementary students. Then the state ruled it does not count as instructional time. The resulting school-day scramble reveals exactly how school systems think about learning, and how far that thinking lags behind what the neuroscience actually shows.
Schools hired more support staff than ever and identified nearly half a million fewer children with learning differences. An Education Next analysis of federal data reveals a system that grew its administrative presence without finding the struggling readers and math learners who needed it most.
A Stanford study of 991 children just showed that reading and math rely on different neurochemical circuits in the developing brain. If your child struggles with both, here is why a single intervention has never been enough — and what the science now says to do about it.
