Dear Substack Readers - You’re Invited to a Webinar on Teaching Children in Dangerous Times – On May 7, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. ET.

I’m grateful to the International Literacy Educators Coalition for inviting me, and a big thank you to Andrew Johnson for encouraging me to talk about my research.

I hope you will join us. Here is the registration link:

https://minnstate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kQPI7-8aTC-NNnZyiAJc_g

I will talk about the six year (on-going) forensic analysis that has provided extensive evidence that the experimental research studies that form the four cornerstones of the “Science of Reading” have no scientific validity.

I will address how these findings impact the lives of children in U.S. public schools, and especially how they impact the 60% to 70% of children in public schools who have had Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Many of the children who have had ACEs are coping with ongoing toxic stress which is compounded by 45 state laws that mandate state approved “Science of Reading” programs and excessive standardized assessments developed by technology companies owned by hedge funds and private equity firms.

The findings of both the quantitative and qualitative forensic analysis provide a compelling case that the National Reading Panel Report has no scientific legitimacy and that a call should be made for the removal of the NRP Report from all NRP documents that policy makers have used to require by law the imposition of scientifically flawed “evidence-based reading instruction” in U.S. public schools.

Such an action would remove the irrational ban on cueing and the requirement of outdated Direct Instruction in the “five pillars,” and thus, nullify the 45 state laws that mandate the Science of Reading.

If these actions were taken universities would be able to base reading courses on the peer-reviewed articles and books of reading researchers whose scholarship has been banned, and curriculum decision-making would be returned to teachers, parents, and local school districts.

I will make sure there is time for questions.

Please Join us.

Denny Taylor

Here is the ILEC announcement.