The goal of our education system can no longer be to impart a set body of scientific knowledge—we must prepare our young people to exist in a society with an ever-changing base of knowledge and to be ready to solve problems that we don’t yet know about.
January 5, 2026
We need to treat literacy activities and instruction in science not simply as a means to understand or produce texts, but as part of the set of practices in which scientists engage as they ask and answer questions about the natural world.
September 30, 2019
Reading across different sources to make better scientific explanations can be supported by comprehension instruction that emphasizes activating and leveraging prior knowledge, making inferences across texts, and revising one’s thinking based on the introduction of new information.
August 20, 2019
