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Timothy Shanahan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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The Right Reading Level—or the Right Reading Challenge?

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By Louise Baigelman, Timothy Shanahan
| Education Next Verified
Last year, Timothy Shanahan published Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives to broad acclaim in education circles (including in this publication). His book’s central argument is that confining students to prescribed reading levels in school has contributed to slow progress—and lately, deterioration—in students’ reading comprehension, as demonstrated in national reading assessments.
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Proteomic taxonomic identification can identify cryptic diversity of Squamata in modern and paleontological specimens

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By Erin Early, Christopher Bell, Matthew Collins, Victoria Todd, Timothy Shanahan
| Nature Verified
Abstract Taxonomic identification of fauna is the foundation for multiple lines of ecological and paleoecological inquiry. However, genomic analyses are increasingly finding morphological similarities can mask species diversity. This cryptic diversity is especially relevant to Squamata (snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenians), members of which tend to be morphologically conserved.
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Children learn to read with books that are just right for them – but that might not be the best approach - Dundas Messenger

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By Timothy Shanahan
| Dundas Messenger
After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education. The average reading scores of 12th graders in 2024 were 3 points lower than they were in 2019. More kids are failing to even reach basic levels of reading that would allow them to successfully do their schoolwork, according to the assessment.
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