In this Learning Tuesdays webinar, we learned about the progress made in the past year on two national initiatives launched by the U.S. Department of Education in the summer of 2022. Last fall, we introduced both the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) and Engage Every Student to the GLR Network, and in this week’s webinar, we learned what […]
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, co-sponsored by Early Learning Nation Magazine, we heard a riveting conversation about early childhood policy — past, present and future. Moderator Michelle Kang of NAEYC opened the session by recognizing the essential yet currently undervalued and undercompensated role that child care and education professionals have, and by a brief […]
High-Quality Early Childhood Education
What really needs to be top of mind this year is getting schools to consider whether the response, the scale of their response, is actually matching the magnitude of the problem. So, it's really critical to be thinking about recovery, not just as a multiyear effort with layered supports, and be clear eyed that this is […]
Funder-to-Funder Conversation
Last November, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading hosted a GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar discussing the sobering NAEP scores that had been recently released, and this week we explored new reports from Curriculum Associates, National Center for Education Statistics and NWEA, revealing that learning recovery largely stalled during the last school year. These reports represent a call to action for […]
In 1983, “A Nation at Risk” brought the conversation of education reform to the American public. In the following years, bipartisan accountability efforts such as No Child Left Behind increased student achievement, particularly in math, having the greatest effect on the lowest achieving students, low-income students, and Black and Hispanic students. During this week’s GLR […]
Join us again on November 14 from 12:30-2pm ET for our next Crucible of Practice session!“We believe that it is critical that each of these everyday places and spaces should and could be a learning-rich environment for children.” –Siobhan O’Loughlin Reardon This session explored local efforts of building literacy and learning-rich environments into locations where […]