‘A Game of Catch-Up’: How This Oklahoma School Gets Kids Reading at Grade Level

Each August in rural southwestern Oklahoma, more than half of Frederick Elementary School’s incoming third graders begin ...

Rethinking reading: All schools are required to adopt ‘structured literacy.’ Here’s what teachers already using it say

No one was a greater skeptic than Martin Elementary kindergarten teacher Alissa Szewczak when New Kensington-Arnold administrators announced the district would switch reading curriculums. Two years ...
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Can focus on reading create a 'Milwaukee miracle' for students? Lessons from other states

A one-on-one reading tutor works with a student at 95th Street School in Milwaukee. A renewed focus on literacy across the public school district and the city is backed by tutoring groups, the new ...
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Royals step up to the plate for literacy, host fourth graders for reading event

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Royals are in the middle of a playoff push, but Thursday, their focus shifted from the scoreboard to the classroom. The team hosted fourth graders from Scuola ...