How To Create Accountability Systems that Build Knowledge and Increase Reading Ability

Education Next - Robert Pondiscio and Lisa Hansel "In an [...]

March 21st, 2016|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Books, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, News, Reading, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Why Background Knowledge is Crucial for Literacy

Education Next - Doug Lemov, Colleen Driggs and Erica Woolway [...]

March 19th, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Books, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, News, Reading, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Early literacy starts before young children can talk

The Eastern Arizona Courier - Staff Writer "As elementary schools [...]

March 14th, 2016|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Books, Brain development, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Reading, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Most literate nation in the world? Not the U.S., new ranking says.

The Washington Post - Valerie Strauss "A new world ranking [...]

March 9th, 2016|Categories: Books, country, Global, Literacy, Reading, Worldwide|Tags: Education, School|

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How To Fix Reading in the Era of ESSA

Education Next - Robert Pondiscio "In the past two decades, [...]

February 29th, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Books, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, News, Reading, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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The White House and Michelle Obama Release $250M ‘Open eBooks’ App for Title I and Special Education Teachers

Ed Surge - Mary Jo Madda "Do you remember how [...]

February 28th, 2016|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Books, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, literature, News, Reading, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Lily Cole challenges MPs on illiteracy

BBC - Sean Coughlan "Model and actress Lily Cole is [...]

February 23rd, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Books, Britain, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, England, Great Britain (UK), Learning, Literacy, News, Reading, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Closing the 30 million word gap

E-School News - Dennis Pierce "To cancel the effects of [...]

February 22nd, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, California, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Libraries, Literacy, News, Parenting, Parents, Teacher, United States (U.S.), Vocabulary, Word Gap|Tags: Education, schools|

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Guided Reading: How to Organize the Chaos

Ed Surge - Irma De La Guardia "Guided reading has [...]

February 15th, 2016|Categories: Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Books, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Language, Learning, Literacy, literature, News, Reading, Reading Difficulties, Teacher, Teacher Accountability, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Burgers and books: Why McDonalds is serving books in its Happy Meals

The Christian Science Monitor - Husna Haq "How's this for [...]

February 5th, 2016|Categories: Books, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, News, Reading, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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