All-America City Grade-Level Reading Award
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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