She asks her students if they can feel the way the words sound as they speak. "Say it again and see if you feel it in your vocal cords," Fuxa prompts her reading instruction class, held last October.

Pictured from left are Ohio Department of Higher Education Chancellor Mike Duffey and Gov. Mike DeWine at a press conference in Columbus. Photo courtesy of the Ohio Department of Higher Education ...

Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. plans to make more than $21.5 million in grants to help 28 colleges and universities in Indiana instruct new teachers in Science of Reading methods. The ...

In recent years, the once-esoteric term “evidence-based reading instruction” has spread beyond research institutions to become part of the vernacular of classroom teachers tasked with teaching young ...

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Pay attention to the shapes your mouths make as you pronounce the word, instructs Robin Fuxa, their education professor at Oklahoma State University. She asks her students if they can feel the way the ...

Research shows there are science-backed ways to help students learn to read, but not all teachers are trained in the best way to do so. In... Teacher training programs don't always use research-backed ...