“Preventing Violence By Teaching Literacy”

from Good Magazine, May 18, 2010 How one tragedy sparked a literacy movement. The proverbial middle of the night phone call. It’s a benign cliché, the stuff you read about in stories—until it’s your phone that rings at 4 a.m. My family’s middle-of-the-night call came on May 6, 1995. It was the police, calling to … Continue reading →

Study: Kids who aren’t reading well by 4th grade are more likely to end up in poverty

from Education Week, May 18, 2010 By Debra Viadero Eighty-five percent of poor 4th graders in predominantly low-income schools are failing to reach “proficient” levels in reading on federal tests, according to a new study by a national foundation that is gearing up to lead a 10-year effort to raise 3rd graders’ reading proficiency. “The … Continue reading →

Why literacy is at the heart of the problems that plague our lowest-performing public schools

The ABCs of Struggling Schools – from good.is Michael Salmonowicz on January 25, 2010 at 6:00 am PST Imagine if you went to your doctor’s office with a heavy cough, and upon examining you the doctor said, “Well, the problem seems to be that you have a cough.” It’s likely that you would be unsatisfied … Continue reading →