Reading shortcuts for children may be popular, but the research doesn’t back them up

This year marks the UK’s National Year of Reading, which aims to rebuild good reading habits and enjoyment as child and ...
eLife

Modality-agnostic decoding of vision and language from fMRI

Modality-agnostic decoders leverage modality-invariant representations in human subjects' brain activity to predict stimuli irrespective of their modality (image, text, mental imagery).
eLife

Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding in naturalistic listening designs

The ability to predict brain activity from words before they occur can be explained by information shared between neighbouring words, without requiring next-word prediction by the brain.
MarketWatch

Literacy Leaders to Convene in Syracuse for 2026 Reading League Summit

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Two-Day Event Helps Educators Translate Literacy Data Into Action SYRACUSE, N.Y., April 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The ...
Education Week

One Reading Skill Might Be Responsible for Many Older Students’ Struggles

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...
Southeast Missourian

In rural Missouri classrooms, a new approach to reading is taking hold

In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat together sounding out words. Kim Williams, the school’s principal, watched as ...
The Boston Globe

Screening children for dyslexia is mandatory. A new bill could help make sure schools follow the law.

Massachusetts took a big step to combat dyslexia in 2023 when the state mandated that all children in kindergarten through third grade get screened twice a year for the learning disability. But ...
Language Magazine

Holding the Pendulum Steady

The education of multilingual learners sits at the intersection of language, literacy, policy, and equity. As states accelerate the adoption of evidence-aligned literacy practices grounded in decades ...
CNN

As literacy rates lag, a pediatric hospital is screening for reading ability

For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don’t start in the kindergarten classroom — they happen first in the doctor’s office. With concerns rising about lagging childhood ...
The New York Times

‘A.I. Literacy’ Is Trending in Schools. Here’s Why.

Artificial intelligence companies are urging teachers to prepare students for an “A.I.-driven future.” What that means varies from school to school. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer has covered A.I.
IEEE

An Encoding–Decoding-Based State Estimation Scheme for State-Saturated Systems Under Buffer-Aided Mechanism

Abstract: In this brief, the encoding-decoding-based state estimation problem is investigated for a class of state-saturated systems under buffer-aided mechanism where the wireless communication is ...