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Summer Learning

Use this Horizons National video to illustrate the problem of summer learning loss.
Parent Engagement

This Reach Out and Read video makes a powerful case for parent engagement in early literacy.
The Value of Preschool

Here’s a video Georgia uses to promote the value of its universal preK program.
Early Learners

This video interview with Ellen Galinksy demonstrates how learning begins long before students start school.
Chronic Absence

Basketball great Magic Johnson urges chronically absent students to show up for school in this public service announcement.

Reading the Research

Third Grade Literacy Policies: Identification, Intervention, Retention (March 2012) – This report by the Education Commission on the States looks at the current intense focus on improving third-grade reading proficiency, and how states are tackling the resulting question: “Should students who do not have the requisite knowledge and
reading skills to succeed in the next grade be retained?”
Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters—This report provides national and state-by-state data on how many students are not reading proficiently and outlines the imperative for addressing the issue.
Double Jeopardy: How Third Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation (Updated March 12) —This national research shows how poverty and poor reading skills in the early grades correlate with high school dropout rates.
Reading Levels of Rural and Urban Third Grades Lag Behind Their Suburban Peers–This report explores the interplay of family, school and place factors in the reading achievement levels of third grade students.
PreK-3: Which Reading and Literacy Practices Matter Most?–The Education Commission of the States released a compilation of research studies that address reading and literacy.
Early Literacy and Your Community–The William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund created this report detailing research on early reading, strategies and promising programs.
Present, Engaged and Accounted For–This research brief documents the prevalence and academic effects of frequent school absences in kindergarten and first grade.
Making Summer Count: How Summer Learning Can Boost Children’s Learning—This study from the RAND Corporation finds that summer learning loss is cumulative over the course of a student’s career and further widens the achievement gap.

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