Moving from science of reading laws to science of reading success Episode 996 of The Education Gadfly Show

This week, we’re joined by Wonkathon winner Eric Tucker—CEO and president of The Study Group—to talk about his first-place entry on what it will take for the science of reading laws to succeed. Then, on the Research Minute, David Griffith highlights a study showing how much valuable information is lost when individual test questions are collapsed into a single score—and why states could produce better value-added measures by using the rich data they already collect. Recommended content: Science of reading 2.0: Assessment in the service of learning as the backbone of science-powered reading improvement — Edmund W. Gordon and Eric Tucker for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute Wonkathon 2025: What will make science of reading laws succeed? —Thomas B. Fordham Institute Do Test Scores Misrepresent Test Results? An Item-by-Item Analysis —Jesse Bruhn, Michael Gilraine, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil Mullainathan, EdWorkingPapers (2025) -- Don’t miss our December 4 webinar, Implementation Is Where It’s At: What’s Next for the Science of Reading? , happening at 3:00 p.m. ET. Feedback Welcome: Have ideas for improving our show? Send them to thegadfly@fordhaminstitute.org

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Moving from science of reading laws to science of reading success Episode 996 of The Education Gadfly Show is an episode from The Education Gadfly Show by Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

This episode is 31:03 long.

This episode was published on Dec 3, 2025.

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