The idea of “reading minds” has shifted from science fiction to a concrete engineering challenge, and the latest breakthroughs suggest the brain’s private code is finally yielding. Researchers are not ...

LONDON, 30 October 2025 – The ‘literacy crisis’ is complex, but two things are clear: some teachers lack confidence in teaching literacy effectively and some children are not learning foundational ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

At our Title I high school in Los Angeles, CA–where over 90 percent of students face economic hardship–we are uniquely autonomous from any feeder grade schools, which means we have no influence on ...

On April 9, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel on the decoding threshold, a key but little-known indicator for elementary and middle school students’ reading ability. The panel featured a ...

Buhl Elementary School in Alabama has been recognized for its success in improving reading proficiency among its students. The school credits its use of the Science of Reading teaching method, ...

In 1982, Mark Crispin Miller, a cultural critic known for his sharp analysis of advertising and media, published an extraordinarily perceptive and provocative analysis of a soap commercial that ...

Despite expectations that students master basic reading skills by third grade, many continue to struggle with reading into upper elementary school and beyond. A new study commissioned by the Advanced ...