Should Elementary Teachers Learn How To Teach Reading or Just Wing It?

Reading instruction is one of the very few areas where it is not the case that "more research is needed." Education policy makers have had the theory and the evidence for decades. The central problem they face in providing effective reading instruction and a sound reading curriculum stems not from an absence of a research base but from willful indifference to what the research has consistently shown. In The Academic Achievement Challenge, the last book she wrote before her death at the age of 78

Reading instruction is one of the very few areas where it is not the case that "more research is needed." Education policy makers have had the theory and the evidence for decades. The central problem they face in providing effective reading instruction and a sound reading curriculum stems not from an absence of a research base but from willful indifference to what the research has consistently shown. In The Academic Achievement Challenge, the last book she wrote before her death at the age of 78…