“In normal science, a theory whose assumptions and predictions have been repeatedly contradicted by data will be discarded,” (Mark) Seidenberg, the cognitive neuroscientist, writes in his book “Language at the Speed of Sight.” “But in education they are theoretical zombies that cannot be stopped by conventional weapons such as empirical disconfirmation, leaving them free to roam the educational landscape.”

- Dyslexia and the Reading Wars: Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them? by David Owen

Why is the word nape part of Fast Lane Literacy? Nape opens up the learner to many new words. This week, we dive into p. Check out the fourth nape scorecard.

"Our pick’s rise was spurred by Openai’s release of Sora, a generative artificial-intelligence (ai) platform that can create videos based on a prompt. Suddenly social-media feeds were filled with such clips. A term that started circulating in the early years of generative ai is now everywhere: “slop”.

The word, of course, is far from new: the [oed]’s first citation is from the 15th century. Its meaning has evolved from mud and slush, through a weak liquid used as a poorly nourishing food, to any kind of food scraps, to nonsense or rubbish."" - Word of the Year 2025 from the Economist.

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