Adolescents need strong reading skills in order to fully access content-area curricula and prepare for success after high school. Yet 30% of students in upper grades read below basic. In part one of a conversation with Pivot Learning, Linda Diamond — author of the Teaching Reading Sourcebook — shares some of the reasons why reading scores for adolescents have decreased since 2015 and provides recommendations to educators for effective intervention.

High-quality instructional materials are one of the key levers for increasing outcomes for all students. Our Curriculum Implementation Project Planning Toolkit provides a roadmap and resources to implement curricula effectively and ensure instructional equity.

In her last blog post as CORE's president, Linda Diamond reflects on the many people who helped shape her career and CORE. She also turns an eye to the future.

Learning to read and developing as a reader is more complicated in a language you are simultaneously learning to speak and understand than in a language you already know well orally. This is one of the most significant challenges faced by millions of English learners (ELs) who are not in bilingual programs, as well as by their teachers. During this recorded webinar Dr. Claude Goldenberg shares how the science of reading can be applied to teaching ELs to read and write in English.

Partner responses may seem impossible when students are online and not sitting next to each other in a classroom but Dr. Anita Archer, author and beloved teacher of teachers, offers a few work arounds in a video conversation with Pivot Learning.

Partner responses may seem impossible when students are online and not sitting next to each other in a classroom but Dr. Anita Archer, author and beloved teacher of teachers, offers a few work arounds in a video conversation with Pivot Learning.