Recently, I heard from my colleague and friend, Claude Goldenberg. Claude is one of the most knowledgeable experts on second language literacy. He is not only intelligent, sensitive, and reliable, but someone who takes the idea of applying science to education seriously.  He noticed a problem and pointed it out to me. It was something that I had recently noticed myself in a very different context, so I was intrigued. He and I became a kind of mini “committee of correspondence”, exchanging emails about our concerns. These days there is much attention to the science of reading...