Explore the latest news, videos, and updates from the U-GAIN Reading project as we document our journey in integrating Generative AI with the Science of Reading.
U-GAIN Reading Publications
Blogs
Media Featuring U-GAIN Team
- Integrating AI-Enabled EdTech in PK16 Education: Five Recommendations for State and District Leaders (Digital Promise / November, 2025)
- What States Say about Evaluating AI in Education: Reviewing Guidance from 32 States and Puerto Rico (Digital Promise / December, 2025)
- Learning in an AI-Augmented World with Dr. Yenda Prado (Harvard GSE’s Askwith Education Forum / Dec. 3, 2025)
- AI + The Science of Reading: Accelerate Learning for Multilingual Students (Digital Promise / October 17, 2025)
- AI Reading Tutors Are Already in Schools. Digital Promise Wants To Make Them Better (Tech & Learning / June 19, 2025)
- Future Fluent: Betsy Corcoran & Dr. Jeremy Roschelle on Redefining Literacy in the Age of AI (Edtech Insiders / May 5, 2025)
- ASU + GSV 2025: Digital Promise Explains Keys to AI Literacy (GovTech / April 7, 2025)
- Want to Try AI With English Learners? Here’s Where to Start (EdWeek / Dec. 12, 2024)
- Breaking Barriers: Exploring Inclusive Education with Dr. Yenda Prado (Edtech Insiders / Dec. 29, 2023)
Additional Resources
AI-Enabled Technology and Literacy
- Massachusetts Guidance for Artificial Intelligence in K-12 (Massachusetts DESE / August 2025)
- AI Literacy for Educators (Massachusetts DESE / August 2025)
- Promoting AI Literacy in K-12 (SRI Education / April 28, 2025)
- The AI Literacy Gap: How Early Adopter Districts Are Leading the Way in K-12 Education (EdPost / April 30, 2025)
- Navigating the landscape of AI literacy education: insights from a decade of research (2014 – 2024) (Nature / March 16, 2025)
- AI Literacy: A Framework to Understand, Evaluate, and Use Emerging Technology (Digital Promise) (Digital Promise / June 2024)
- Growing up with Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Child Development (Xu & Prado) (Springer Nature Link / Dec. 6, 2024)
- An AI Bill of Rights for Educators (Engage AI / rev. March 28, 2025)
- Promoting parent-child shared reading with a bilingual conversational agent (ScienceDirect / May 2025)
- How an AI bot helps Baltimore County kids learns to read (Baltimore Banner / Nov. 25, 2024)
- MIT AI Ethics Education Curriculum (MIT Media Lab / August 2019)
- Chicago Public Schools AI Guidance (Chicago Public Schools / 2024)
The Science of Reading
- Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade (U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences / rev. January 2019)
- The Science of Reading Progresses: Communicating Advances Beyond the Simple View of Reading (Duke, N. & Cartwright, K. / May 7, 2021)
- How Reading Motivation and Engagement Enable Reading Achievement (Barber, A. & Klauda, S. / March 11, 2020)
- The role of asset based pedagogy in an interactive view of reading (Gabriel, R. & Lopez, F. / Oct. 31, 2024)
English Learners
- Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School (U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences / April 2014)
- Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades (U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences / December 2007)
- Non-Spanish Speaking ELL Students: An Unmet Need in the Market (EdWeek / Nov. 15, 2024)
- Districts Are Ramping Up Standards for ELL Materials. Here’s How to Meet Rising Expectations (EdWeek / Nov. 28, 2023)
Podcasts and Related Media
- FutureFluent Podcast – featuring reports from the contested boundary of AI & Learning, hosted by Betsy Corcoran with Digital Promise’s Jeremy Roschelle
- EdTech Insiders Podcast – featuring interviews with leaders in the educational technology field, including Digital Promise’s Jeremy Roschelle and Yenda Prado
- Let’s Get Serious: Pedagogy-First, AI Enhanced Learning – panel discussion moderated by Digital Promise’s Jeremy Roschelle at the ASU+GSV Summit 2025