- Our research continues to be studied in the UK (Original article: Vanderbilt peer reading program finds global success).
Emma Vardy and her British colleagues have recently been awarded monies from the Education Endowment Fund to conduct a large, randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of the PALS-Reading program in British elementary schools. The study will include 250 schools and 11,000 children. Recruitment begins January 12, 2026. This is a follow-up study to a pilot investigation of PALS-Reading conducted by Vardy and her colleagues several years ago.
Vardy and colleagues are also preparing a Welsh translation of the PALS-Reading manual for the Welsh government. The manual will include both North and South Welsh versions so schools can select the version for their context.
Also, thank you to our dear friends who are currently introducing PALS to help struggling readers in Vietnam. - Licenses have been phased out. All licenses paid for and received remain valid until expiration date on the license.
- PALS Kindergarten Reading Program has been recognized by Teacher’s College at Columbia University as being a “cost-effective early reading intervention program”. Following a cost-effectiveness analysis recently conducted by The Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, researchers concluded that among programs that have been shown to be effective with respect to early literacy outcomes, PALS Kindergarten Reading is also highly efficient in terms of cost per student. [Click here for the full report.]
- Interventions recognized as a promising program by Blueprint. Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development (Blueprints) adds PALS, Fraction Face-Off! and Number Rockets to its list of promising programs for academic performance and early cognitive development. Blueprints identifies prevention and intervention programs that meet a strict scientific standard of program effectiveness. Of the more than 1,000 programs that Blueprints’ Advisory Board has reviewed that are exemplary in methods and grounded in evidence.
- Read more about the impressive effects of tutoring and how we are making a difference here.
- PALS is expanding its international footprint.
