Getting kindergarten right has to be top of mind for all of us, because what happens there sets the stage for how a child learns and develops well into their elementary years and beyond.
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HOLIDAY REBROADCAST: EdTech Working: Enhancing Teaching & Learning AND Scaling Needed Interventions
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,...
Children’s Books: From Access to Opportunity
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,...
Ready, Set, Go: Two-Generation Approaches for Kindergarten Readiness
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....
Supporting School Attendance in a Time of Changing Norms
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...