Studies have shown that students from a lower socioeconomic status (SES) background are more likely to have difficulty with educational attainment than those from a higher SES background. In a recent study focusing on determining the specific shortcomings caused by... View Article
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A remarkable new study by Evelina Fedorenko’s research group, published in Nature Neuroscience, showed that brain regions associated with language processing in native English speakers were also activated in speakers of 45 other different languages, while they were engaging in... View Article
Results from the latest Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) reading assessment have indicated that a quarter of Ontario’s grade 3 students are failing to meet reading standards for their age group. Erin Panda, an assistant professor in the Department... View Article
Emily Moorhead is a kindergarten teacher whose son in grade 1 was exhibiting early signs of dyslexia, a type of learning disability. Even as an elementary school educator, she still felt that she didn’t have the skills to help her... View Article
Overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are also facing a reading crisis. Children are not learning to read properly and/or are falling behind in regard to the curriculum standards expected of them. Teachers are struggling to do enough to take... View Article
Librarians play an important role in supporting individuals in learning how to access research databases and to become more literate in digital media. Yet according to recent statistics published by Antioch University Seattle in the School Librarian Investigation Decline of... View Article
An opinion piece in the Globe and Mail stated that 25% of children who finish grade 3 are set up for failure in grade 4. Their reading and writing levels are well below the minimum level necessary to succeed further... View Article
This article provided the results of two studies supporting the hypothesis that areas of the visual system designed to recognize objects that have been repurposed over evolution to allow humans to read. A study in 2012 conducted by French cognitive... View Article
The ubiquitous presence of children who cannot read in Ontario classrooms has prompted the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) to launch Right to Read. Right to Read is a public inquiry into human rights issues pertaining to children with reading... View Article
Photo by Akshay Chauhan on Unsplash. The Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA) is a new standardized assessment created last year which covers mathematics, reading and writing. This test is taken by students in grades 3 to 8, as well as grade... View Article
There appear to be few consistent empirical demonstrations of the idea that studying materials printed on yellow paper are easier to recall than those printed on white paper, however there is evidence that warm colours (like yellow, orange and red)... View Article
Photo by Unseen Studio on Unsplash. Grade 3 and 6 reading, writing and math test scores in the Waterloo region are uniformly less than the provincial average, according to more detailed EQAO (Education Quality and Accountability Office) results released yesterday.... View Article
According to an EdSurge article by Esther Wojcicki, the US spends more per student ($7,743) than other OECD nations, yet has fallen badly in the most recent PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) test scores, released on December 3, 2013: “US students slipped... View Article