Science of Reading Mandates: Who’s Listening to The Experts?

Forty states are mandating the Science of Reading (SoR), promoting what they call evidence-based learning. Sadly, for years, thought-provoking arguments by accomplished reading and educational experts, based on serious research, have described complications surrounding the SoR. They seem all but ignored. Problems with this paradigm seem unnoticed by policymakers in favor of a few neuroscientists,…