Mary Beth Nicklaus, Beth Jarzabek, Jennifer Casa-Todd, Jennifer Orr, and Leah Wilson contribute their thoughts on the use or nonuse of reading logs to document student reading at home.

One of the giants of the literacy world is grappling with the recent push for the "science of reading"—and responding to critics who say her early reading program doesn't align to evidence-based practice.

A new report from Student Achievement Partners claims that the popular reading program from literacy giant Lucy Calkins doesn't align to evidence-based practice. The review is the first in a new series that will evaluate reading programs against the scientific research base.

At a roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C., leaders advocated for states to play a stronger role in championing science-backed instruction and translating research into practice, focusing on levers like teacher training, certification, and system-wide professional learning.

The Tennessee department of education is proposing unsually comprehensive legislation that will require all current and new K-3 teachers, and those who train them, to know evidence-based reading instruction.

Children adapt their attitudes toward reading to conform to their classmates' perceived gender stereotypes, in ways that put boys at a disadvantage, according to a new study in the journal Child Development.

As schools apply more scrutiny to the methods and materials they use to teach early reading, educators and parents in some states have started to form new advocacy efforts—trying to pressure states and districts to adopt new approaches to teacher training and evaluating materials.

Keep it simple, keep it flexible, and keep the routine familiar are among the suggestions three educators give in assigning students work while distance learning.

The National Education Policy Center and Education Deans for Justice and Equity released a joint statement on Thursday, claiming that "there is no settled science of reading."

All Classroom Q&A posts on Reading Instruction (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post.

Finding antivirals to reduce coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) morbidity and mortality has been challenging. Large randomized clinical trials that aimed to test four repurposed drugs, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir-ritonavir, interferon beta 1a, and remdesivir, have shown that these compounds lack an impact on the COVID-19 course. Although the phase III COVID-19 vaccine trial results are encouraging, the search for effective COVID-19 therapeutics should not stop. Recently, plitidepsin (aplidin) demonstrated highly effective preclinical activity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Its antiviral activity was 27.5-fold more potent than that of remdesivir (K. M. White, R. Rosales, S. Yildiz, T. Kehrer, et al., Science, 2021, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/22/science.abf4058). Plitidepsin, a repurposed drug developed for the treatment of multiple myeloma, targets the host translation cofactor eEF1A. Plitidepsin has shown efficacy in animal models and phase I/II human trials. Although plitidepsin is administered intravenously and its toxicity profile remains to be fully characterized, this compound may be a promising alternative COVID-19 therapeutic.

Kyle Scott (UK) joined OM Europe’s Transit Challenge Team at Transform 2010 and spent the next 6 months travelling from Italy through Southern Europe to the Balkans. After returning home for Christmas, he flew to Germany for the GO conference in January 2011, from where he joined the OM team in France. We were curious to know more…

Two years ago, one of the main networks of evangelical churches in France launched the Nouvelles Générations (New Generations) project to train young Christians for the work of ministry and to build up of the body of Christ.

French pastor believes that today a new generation in France is rising up with passion to serve God.

A performing arts outreach team shares Christ with crowds gathered to watch their street performances every evening during the Avignon Festival.

God works in the hearts of those who attend an event at a local church in northeast France.

Six OMers spent two weeks in the south of France sharing God's love with children as part of a large music festival.

In spite of fluctuating numbers, an OMer knows God is working in the hearts of those who attended the kids’ club and heard the gospel.

Cleaning up after class turns into a moment of sharing between an OM worker and two North African women.

OM France and local churches reach out to women enslaved by human trafficking in one of France’s largest cities.

Mathilde, a French teen, describes her trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina. She and others will raise funds for a youth centre where Bosnian teens can discover God.

A 20-member church and a volunteer pastor seek long-term help for sharing the gospel with the 24,000 people in their town.

A recent poll shows "rationalistic" French society still highly bound to superstition.

Un sondage récent montre que la superstition est bien présente dans la société française, qui se veut pourtant si rationaliste.

An OM outreach participant shares the gospel with another group of hikers during a walk down a mountain in France.

Martin and Petro De Lange start ministry to Turks in France.

Participants experience a special outreach, Retro-Extreme, in France where they rely on God alone for daily food, housing and ministry opportunities.

A youth group from Lyon, France, participates in a summer 2012 TiM outreach to Southampton, UK.

Two guys with the Transit Challenge team step out in faith to share the gospel in an unfamiliar city.

A young French woman learns more about herself and God as she serves aboard Logos Hope from 2009 to 2011.

An OMer encounters a French woman who converted to Islam but misunderstands both Islam and the Christian faith.

An OM France couple works among trafficked women and fights for justice before government officials.

During OM France’s last LinkUp, an interdenominational event for all teens and young adults in the Nantes region, OMers focused on the theme of sexuality.

OM worker Lynn, along with teammates, ministers to immigrant women in France.

French OMer Andre experiences that prayer can change the hearts of authorities regarding victims of human trafficking.

After the Transform conference last July in Rome, about 10 of the participants in eastern France started to meet together in order to share the Gospel through dance.

A French man met in the street prefered to live without God, thinking He would take away his freedom.

A team member has a change of heart during the Transform 2013 outreach to prostitutes in Lyon.

Ashley, 19, serving with OM France, shares how God led her to OM and about the ministry she’s been involved in so far.

Several years ago OM France started teaching French to immigrants to meet a practical need, build relationships and share God’s love.

A worker shares the story of one girl who recently took the courageous step to leave her life of prostitution for the freedom Christ offers.

During her three months mission trip to Paris, Madeline realised how precious it is to be a living testimony for the homeless.

“I was not happy when the Lord told me to go to France,” recalls one American OM worker, who soon discovered Europe’s great spiritual needs.

A group of 12 came to France through the Transform conference, to partner with a church and establish connections in the local refugee camp.

In the 1980s, OM organised large summer campaigns with the huge task of covering every town and village in France with Christian literature.

OM France marks OM’s 60th anniversary, inviting International Director, Lawrence Tong, to grace this special occasion.

While reaching out to Turks in France, one long-term worker feels like Apostle Paul: preaching in house churches and getting kicked out of a mosque.