Tag: literacy
New National Effort to Address Effective Literacy for Multilingual Learners
Researchers, educators, teachers, administrators, school board members, and advocates with expertise in literacy and the education of English learner/emergent bilingual students have come together...
Reading Research Leading to Teaching Practice
For years, research into how students learn to read has progressed without really making its way into the classrooms where that learning is happening....
UN Warns on Post-Pandemic Child Literacy
On last month’s International Day of Education (24 January), UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that education must be central to recovery plans from the pandemic,...
English Learner Progress Dips during Pandemic
The latest report on how English learners (ELs) around the country coped with language development during the pandemic reveals an overall downward trend in...
State Superintendent Tony Thurmond to Host Virtual Town Hall to Spotlight...
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond will hold a virtual town hall on Monday, December 6, 2021, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. to...
California’s Commitment: Literacy, Biliteracy, and Libraries
I have only one critical comment about California’s Secretary of Education Thurmond’s task force report, “California Commits to Literacy and Bets on Biliteracy,” but...
Getting Kids to Listen
The current boom in podcasting has captured public attention for a variety of reasons, from the nostalgic reference to radio shows of the pre-TV...
Reading Is the Answer
COVID-19 Impacts Children’s Literacy For the past year and a half, instead of heading to the school bus stop and socializing before classes, students...
COVID’s Literacy Fallout
The metaphor “summer slide” has been used for decades to describe the essential skills that children lose over the summer when they’re out of...
California Commits to Literacy Target and Bets on Biliteracy
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has announced an initiative to ensure that not only will every student learn to read by...
