Grade Level reading

All-America City Grade-Level Reading Award

MORE THAN 120 ACTION PLANS SUBMITTED! See full list of cities here.

The 2012 All-America City Awards will go to communities that have developed the most comprehensive, realistic and sustainable plans to increase grade-level reading proficiency by the end of third grade.

Cities, counties and towns submitted community solutions action plans in March and will be recognized in July for their strategies in three areas that have real potential to drive improvements in grade-level reading: school readiness, school attendance, and summer learning.

The Campaign and its partners–the National Civic League, National League of Cities and United Way Worldwide–are offering technical assistance and peer learning opportunities to cities that participate in the award process.

News from the Campaign

New report shows alarming rates of chronic absence

An estimated 5 million to 7.5 million students miss nearly a month of school every year, a trend that goes largely unnoticed despite the devastating effects on student achievement, according to  a new report released today and featured in the New York Times. The report, compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Everyone Graduates Center and the [...]

Posted by Phyllis Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | Read More »

Video Contest for All-America City Contenders!

Every year the National Civic League holds an All-America City Award Video Contest.  This year, because of  its partnership with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, the group is communities participating in the network to submit a short video on their groundbreaking efforts to get more students reading proficiently by the end of third grade. The [...]

Posted by Phyllis Monday, May 7th, 2012 | Read More »

In Hartford, “Third Grade Promise” Extends to Whole Community

Here’s a guest blog from Richard Sussman , director of the Brighter Futures Initiative for the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving , which is part of Hartford’s on grade-level reading coalition. As we await the Denver decision, it has become clear that what was once considered to be largely a public school commitment to proficiency [...]

Posted by Phyllis Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 | Read More »

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