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June 27

Dyslexia Jun 27 Berkeley Switched to Phonics After a Lawsuit. The Results Are In. It took a federal lawsuit, four years of negotiations, and nearly a decade of legal pressure. But Berkeley finally replaced balanced literacy with phonics instruction. Year one results are in:… Education policy Jun 27 Oklahoma Bans the Reading Strategy That Trained Kids to Guess, Not Decode Oklahoma’s SB 1778 bans balanced literacy and whole-language methods from teacher preparation programs. Cognitive scientists called this approach wrong decades before any state moved against it. Here’s what the law…

June 25

AI in education Jun 25 Schools Bet on AI Tutors. Stanford Finds Kids Barely Use Them Schools are racing to put AI tutors in front of kids. A new Stanford study counted how much they actually used one: two to five minutes a week, with the… Dyslexia Jun 25 It Took a Lawsuit to Make Berkeley Teach Reading Right After a federal lawsuit, Berkeley finally replaced its guessing-based reading program with structured literacy, and its youngest readers posted strong gains. The science was settled decades ago. Here is why…

June 24

AI in education Jun 24 Norway Bans AI for Young Children, and Every Parent Should Ask Why Norway will bar generative AI for children through seventh grade, betting that young brains need to do the hard work themselves. Cheer it or fear it, the move lands on… Dyslexia Jun 24 Dyslexia Is More Than a Reading Score, and That Cuts Both Ways A first-of-its-kind Harvard conference put the whole teenager at the center, not the reading score. The reframe is overdue and right. Here is the part a feel-good version leaves out,… Dyslexia Jun 24 Why Some Strong Talkers Still Struggle to Read, New Research Shows Some children talk a blue streak and still stall on the page. A new Current Biology study explains why, and it points to a brain system most reading screens never… ADHD Jun 24 The ADHD Surge Is About Wider Criteria, Not Sicker Kids More children carry an ADHD diagnosis than a decade ago, and the headlines swing between epidemic and overdiagnosis. A large genetic study from Denmark points to a calmer truth. The… Dyslexia Jun 24 Fort Worth Screens Thousands for Dyslexia. Identification Is Only Step One Fort Worth is screening up to 1,000 children for dyslexia this summer, far beyond the early grades. Finding them early is the right move. But identification is only step one,… Dyscalculia Jun 24 Dyscalculia Gets New Research and a Free Parent Workshop This Month Dyscalculia gets far less attention than dyslexia, yet it shapes how a child meets math every day. This month a free parent workshop and a new research review put it…