Education News – Kristin Decarr
“A report published by the Alliance for Excellent Education is urging Congress to focus on the development of literacy in students from early childhood through the twelfth grade in its rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) after finding that 60% of fourth and eighth graders in the US are struggling to learn to read. The report, The Next Chapter: Supporting Literacy Within ESEA, focuses on why students are having trouble learning to read and looks into the success behind federal efforts to improve literacy in the country…”(more)