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Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Monday, August 24, 2026
This Black August, Americans will study, meditate, fast, exercise – and read – for Black liberation
Each year, people across the country and world use Black August as a time to be intentional about engaging with Black radical literature. They study Black precolonial history and learn about slave rebellions and the ongoing fight for liberation. Here are some texts to read this Black August:…
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Friday, June 12, 2026
After years of declines, young students show gains in reading and math
"I think this is an optimistic release," Matthew Soldner, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, told NPR...
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/10/nx-s1-5844932/naep-long-term-trends-reading-math
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Trump will participate in marathon Bible-reading event with other top Republicans | PBS News Inbox
Trump's appearance will be from the Oval Office, where he will read from the seventh chapter of 2 Chronicles, set during King Solomon's dedication of the temple in ancient Jerusalem. In it, God promises forgiveness if a future generation rebels then repents: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
Friday, March 13, 2026
Michigan considering requiring literacy training for elementary school teachers
Gives educators tools to implement effective reading and spelling instruction supported by scientifically-based research…
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Whitmer: Improving student literacy will be No. 1 priority in ’26
"Our mission is as big as it is simple: Every child reads," she said. "Not some, not most. Every child reads."…
"Today, we're 44th in the country in fourth grade reading," she said. "Just 4 in 10 fourth graders in Michigan read at grade level, and almost one in three Michigan students tests below average, and that's what I would call a crisis, and the vast majority of the people of our state would agree."
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
US students' reading and math scores at historic lows: 'Devastating trend' - ABC News
"Today's NAEP results confirm a devastating trend: American students are testing at historic lows across all of K-12," McMahon said, adding, "Despite spending billions annually on numerous K-12 programs, the achievement gap is widening, and more high school seniors are performing below the basic benchmark in math and reading than ever before."
The Department of Education has notably been cutting staff and services under McMahon's leadership, including the researchers who produced the new nation's report card. President Donald Trump has also tasked McMahon with dismantling her department altogether and handing control over education agendas to the states…
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/us-students-reading-math-scores-historic-lows-devastating/story
Friday, August 15, 2025
Teaching Kids to Read: How One School District Gets It Right (Reveal podcast)
An elementary school in Ohio has some of the best little readers in the nation. How they did it—and how a new law put it all at risk.
The schools in Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual—in fact, it’s almost unheard of. In a country where nearly 40 percent of fourth graders struggle to read at even a basic level, Steubenville has succeeded in teaching virtually all of its students to read well.
According to data from the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University, Steubenville has routinely scored in the top 10 percent or better of schools nationwide for third grade reading, sometimes scoring as high as the top 1 percent.
In study after study for decades, researchers have found that districts serving low-income families almost always have lower test scores than districts in more affluent places. Yet Steubenville bucks that trend.
“It was astonishing to me how amazing that elementary school was,” said Karin Chenoweth, who wrote about Steubenville in her book How It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons From Unexpected Schools.
This week on Reveal, reporter Emily Hanford shares the latest from the hit APM Reports podcast Sold a Story. We’ll learn how Steubenville became a model of reading success—and how a new law in Ohio put it all at risk.
Interview:
The schools in Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual—in fact, it’s almost unheard of. In a country where nearly 40 percent of fourth graders struggle to read at even a basic level, Steubenville has succeeded in teaching virtually all of its students to read well.
According to data from the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University, Steubenville has routinely scored in the top 10 percent or better of schools nationwide for third grade reading, sometimes scoring as high as the top 1 percent.
In study after study for decades, researchers have found that districts serving low-income families almost always have lower test scores than districts in more affluent places. Yet Steubenville bucks that trend.
“It was astonishing to me how amazing that elementary school was,” said Karin Chenoweth, who wrote about Steubenville in her book How It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons From Unexpected Schools.
This week on Reveal, reporter Emily Hanford shares the latest from the hit APM Reports podcast Sold a Story. We’ll learn how Steubenville became a model of reading success—and how a new law in Ohio put it all at risk.
Interview:
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Friday, May 17, 2024
Court rejects parents’ attempt to opt kids out of LGBTQ-inclusive reading assignments | The Hill
In August 2023, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman found that the parents were unlikely to succeed on the merits and denied their request to keep the policy in place while the case proceeds. She found that they failed to show that the lack of an opt-out policy would result in the "indoctrination of their children" or "coerce their children to violate or change their religious beliefs."
"The parents still may instruct their children on their religious beliefs regarding sexuality, marriage, and gender, and each family may place contrary views in its religious context," Boardman wrote in the order last year.
"No government action prevents the parents from freely discussing the topics raised in the storybooks with their children or teaching their children as they wish," she added...
Friday, March 1, 2024
How teens benefit from being able to read ‘disturbing’ books that some want to ban
Here are six ways students told us they had been changed by reading and talking about edgy young adult books...
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Book bans reflect outdated beliefs about how children read
"There's no better place for a young person to engage and wrestle with ideas that may or may not be their own than a book," he told CNN for an in-depth June 2022 feature on book banning in America. "These stories are meant to be playgrounds for ideas, playgrounds for debate and discourse. Books don't brainwash. They represent ideas."
For Reynolds and the other authors, librarians, readers, parents and educators commemorating Banned Books Week 2022, adults have a right to disagree with those ideas. But rather than fear the uncomfortable "conversations young people bring home," adults can actively encourage them…
Thursday, December 2, 2021
The American Prison System's War on Reading • Protean Magazine
…These practices become all the more abhorrent when you consider the impact books can have behind bars…
Sunday, October 18, 2020
The Best Short Fiction, Handpicked by the Best Voice in Podcasting (Levar Burton Reads podcast)
In every episode, host LeVar Burton (Roots, Reading Rainbow, Star Trek) invites you to take a break from your daily life, and dive into a great story. LeVar’s narration blends with gorgeous soundscapes to bring stories by Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury and more to life. So, if you’re ready, let’s take a deep breath...
Interview:
Friday, September 18, 2020
The battle over dyslexia
It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/17/battle-over-dyslexia-warwickshire-staffordshire
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/17/battle-over-dyslexia-warwickshire-staffordshire
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