The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — more commonly known as SNAP or Food Stamps — is the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, supporting more than 34 million individuals, nearly half of them children. SNAP helps families afford food and groceries, a basic necessity linked directly to improved birth outcomes, healthy development, early learning, and school success, […]
This Special Rebroadcast concluded our month of rebroadcasts by revisiting a powerful GLR Week 2025 conversation from July. With the recent federal spending cuts and policy shifts to programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, and Head Start, these gaps have been severely exacerbated. The majority of the 350+ stakeholder coalitions in CGLR’s network are serving children […]
This session picked up on our 8-session series from earlier this year that focused on “Decoding NAEP” where we engaged state chiefs, educators, parents, researchers, and advocates in a deep-dive exploration of the 2024 scores from “The Nation’s Report Card.” We went beyond decoding NAEP in this session to explore the federal role in generating […]
"While it makes sense that more books in the hands of more youth would likely mean better literacy outcomes, we wanted demonstrable results to show just how much that return on the investment actually was…. had some promising early results from an external study of the program. This was critical in sustainability, as our partners at […]
Bruno Manno, Ph.D., with the Progressive Policy Institute moderated a conversation exploring why and how to equip parents with information and agency to take advantage of increased K–12 education options for their children, including charters, microschools, education savings accounts, homeschooling and more. This was the second webinar in a series exploring the potential and implications of parents as […]
Co-Sponsored by Exponent Philanthropy“It’s been great to see the flexibility, how organizations have reflected on their ability to rise to the moment, give out more funding, and/or be mindful of how they can use not just their financial assets but their collective assets and their networks to support their grantees through convenings, connections with partners, […]
In a conversation moderated by Ginger Young of Book Harvest, panelists Steve Hannon, Ph.D., of LENA; Allison Leedie of Khan Academy Kids; Dan Torres of Vroom, a program of Bezos Family Foundation; and Amie Wood of Waterford.org explored how technology can support — not supplant — the central role of parents and caregivers as their children’s first teachers. The session reinforced that while books remain the enduring cornerstone of literacy […]
This session continued CGLR’s emphasis on high-impact tutoring as one of several“big bets” and smart investments identified by CGLR to accelerate learning recovery. We have been heartened to see that more and more schools and communities are making a significant investment in this strategy over the past few years and sought to use this week’s […]