CGLR has long advocated for productive parent-teacher partnerships and has hosted several webinars in recent years that revealed why “big bets” should be made on this strategy, which has the potential to make more than the usual increments of change. When parents (or any primary caregiver for a student) build relational trust with their child’s […]
The early research on the use of generative AI tools...suggests that those children who are underperforming the most are gaining the most from access to this technology.– Isabelle Hau, Stanford Accelerator for Learning, Stanford University Isabelle Hau of Stanford Accelerator for Learning, Stanford University offered the quote above during our June 25, 2024 GLR Learning […]
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading has devoted several GLR Learning Tuesdays sessions to the importance of investing in EdTech. We know that technology can support learning when it helps to “scale up standardized instruction, facilitate differentiated instruction, expand opportunities for practice, and increase student engagement,” as noted by The Brookings Institution. Obviously, EdTech got a big boost […]
The research is clear: literacy outcomes improve when young children have access to books and other age-appropriate, high-quality reading materials. Learn how innovative nonprofits are overcoming “book deserts,” book bans, curriculum changes and library closures, ensuring that children have ready access to books in their homes, schools and the everyday places they frequent with their […]
United Way Worldwide and Ascend at the Aspen Institute have long partnered with each other and with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading to disrupt the cycle of poverty and create more hopeful futures for children with a focus on improving early learning. Two-generation (2Gen) approaches, which support children as well as their parents and caregivers, […]
We know that attendance is key to student success and to closing academic gaps. And yet, since the pandemic, norms around work and learning have shifted dramatically to disrupt the tradition of school as attending in-person, five days a week. In fact, four-day school weeks occurred in about half of the states in the 2022–2023 […]
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) is proud that more than 5,000 local agencies, organizations and institutions and over 100 sector- and field-leading organizations have taken a stand and joined with CGLR to ensure that children in economically challenged, fragile and marginalized families can achieve third-grade reading proficiency. Children’s museums in CGLR communities have played […]
Since the pandemic, it has become even more evident that kindergarten is a crucial time to ensure that students from low-income and marginalized families have an equal chance to create a solid foundation toward early school success. In fact, research demonstrates that the entire third-grade reading gap is evident by the end of kindergarten, and […]