Language & Literacy

Musings about language and literacy and learning

The Common Core: An Opportunity Squandered March 12, 2022
A Healthy Diet of Openness and Skepticism Towards Education Research February 26, 2022
What does it take to internalize the cipher? February 6, 2022
Advancing Literacy for Black boys February 1, 2022
A Finale: Learning to Read and Write is a Remarkable Human Feat January 28, 2022
The Relation of Speech to Reading and Writing January 24, 2022
An Interlude: What do we mean when we say learning something is unnatural? January 23, 2022
Learning to Read: An Unnatural Act January 18, 2022
Learning to Read is Natural (So claim the Goodmans) January 9, 2022
What is (un)natural about learning to read and write? January 8, 2022
The Science of Reading Across Languages December 29, 2021
The Sound and the Fury of Phonemes and Reading December 23, 2021
Irregularity Enhances Learning (Maybe) November 12, 2021
Language Within and Beyond the Brain November 7, 2021
The Science of Reading and Cancer September 26, 2021
Language and Friendship September 7, 2021
Language and Cognition September 3, 2021
Universals of Language August 27, 2021
Operating Principles Across Written Languages July 3, 2021
Our Brains Were Not Born to Read…Right? June 6, 2021