NYC ‘science of reading’ initiative: How a Staten Island school is leading the way

A 10-hour course for educators creates a common language for teaching phonemic awareness across all grade levels.
The New Yorker

The Curious Notoriety of “Performative Reading”

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
The New York Times

Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?

Mr. Bannon is the chief librarian at the New York Public Library, where he is also director of branch libraries and education. Nov. 23, 2025 As a librarian, I get a lot of questions. One I am hearing ...
Time

All the Way to the River

Even before a terminal cancer diagnosis upended their plans for a future together, Elizabeth Gilbert and Rayya Elias’ love story was not a typical one. Gilbert, a self-described sex and love addict, ...