Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

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Michael 'Mike' Glassow Michael “Mike” Glassow, a pioneering and transformative archaeologist, succumbed at age 85 to bladder cancer on Dec. 17, 2025. Born ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

This story has been updated with a statement from Ohio State. When it comes to implementing the "science of reading" in K-12 school districts, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said district leaders and teachers ...

With the benefits of hindsight, it’s hardly surprising that Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Epstein were pals. Chomsky is an expert on manufacturing consent while Epstein was an expert on manufacturing ...

The FBI untangled the mysterious Jan. 6, 2021, pipe bombs case by relying on a “new computer program,” which deciphered cellphone data that the agency had held for years. Earlier this month, the ...

Several years ago, I wrote a blog about the complex economic, cultural, and social factors that usually come together to create a perfect storm, with hate crimes as an emerging consequence. I focused ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. With some estimates placing the number of Hawaiian monk seals left in the wild at just 1 ...

Nitin Nabin, the BJP's new working president, is only the second person in the party's history to occupy the post. The first is Jagat Prakash Nadda, the incumbent party chief. Interestingly, the BJP's ...

Imagine watching a conversation between brain cells, seeing chemical messages pass from one neuron to another. Scientists can ...