Lansing summer program helps kids build reading skills before school starts

We’re learning stuff, they’re teaching us sounds and stuff. That’s what I love about the magic of literacy,” said Ava Johnson ...
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Orange County Schools say decline in enrollment is due to the state’s Step Up voucher program

ORLANDO, Fla. — School districts across Central Florida continue to report budget shortfalls. They claim the main reason is growing participation in the state’s Step Up program. Step Up provides ...

Israel and Lebanon sign framework agreement with US in ‘first step’ toward peace, Rubio says

Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined Israel and Lebanon’s ambassadors to the U.S. Friday to announce a framework agreement that was described as a first step toward peace following months of conflict ...

Are Utah’s K-3 reading programs actually working? Here’s what a new state report found.

Utah aims to get 80% of its third graders reading proficiently by 2030, but in the last decade, there’s been little ...

Ontario kindergarten: What changed, what didn’t and why it matters

Ontario’s revised kindergarten program asks teachers to use both explicit literacy instruction and play-based learning.

Reading delay isn’t often caught until fourth or fifth grade. CT’s trying to change that

What we were missing was the really systematic and explicit teaching of all of those phonemic awareness and phonics skills, ...

CT schools double down on early detection to help reading scores

CT teachers now have access to the tools needed to identify and solve reading delays, and some districts are already seeing ...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court’s neutering of the First Step Act

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In 2018, Congress passed the First Step Act with rare bipartisan support. Hailed as “the most significant criminal justice ...
AOL

Summer reading programs combat ‘summer slide’ in Louisiana

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Louisiana public libraries are launching summer reading programs designed to keep children, teens, and adults engaged in reading throughout the summer. Programs will vary ...
Dallas Morning News

Summer reading program returns to Dallas libraries with free activities and rewards

The Dallas Public Library kicks off its Science, Math, Art, Reading and Technology Summer Program on Saturday, May 30, with multiple events. As early as 1903, the Dallas Public Library offered some ...
Post and Courier

Summer reading pays off. These Charleston programs offer prizes to kids, teens, adults.

Even when it comes to summer reading programs, no one out-pizzas the Hut. Millennials in particular love sharing childhood memories of Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT! Summer of Stories program, which started in ...
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New Mexico summer reading program expands after success in first 2 years

SANTA FE, N.M. — Registration is still open for the New Mexico Public Education Department’s free summer reading program that is adding math to its lesson plan this year. The PED launched its summer ...