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Learning Loss Guide for Educators, Caregivers, and Community Leaders
Read more: Learning Loss Guide for Educators, Caregivers, and Community LeadersEducators need fresh ideas, tools, and resources, as well as innovative ways to combat learning loss and, more specifically, reading loss. This guide is for educators, school district administrators, families, and community leaders, delving into how to define learning loss in relation to reading loss, what experts believe causes it, its impact on individuals and…
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How to Recharge Over Summer Break
Read more: How to Recharge Over Summer BreakThe school year is over. The paperwork is complete, grades are processed and submitted, and your classroom is clean and ready for next year. Time for a well-deserved break! Spending long hours in the classroom grading and carrying out all of the extra activities that are part of a teacher’s daily routine can make the…
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School’s Out Until September, According to New Ohio Bill
Read more: School’s Out Until September, According to New Ohio BillThe summer slide is starting this week for most Ohio students. But it’s not the slippery steel slope kids enjoy on the playground. It’s the downward slide of skills, especially reading skills, that affects all children when they stop learning. They start sliding backward. Children can lose two to three months in reading skills over…
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Literacy and the Bridge to Opportunity
Read more: Literacy and the Bridge to OpportunityLisa Soricone is associate research director for the Building Economic Opportunity Group at Jobs for the Future, a national nonprofit that builds educational and economic opportunity for underserved populations in the United States. Soricone works to help low-skilled adults advance to careers that can support families, while enabling employers to build and sustain a productive…
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Why Fighting the Summer Slide Matters
Read more: Why Fighting the Summer Slide MattersIn the mid-19th century, students did not see anything like the modern summer break. The rise of the summer break in schools is a product of a shift from rural to urban living. Early cities were hot and dirty. Parents who could leave the city to the cooler countryside did. This left schools half full…
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Why Grade Level Reading is Critical for Students
Read more: Why Grade Level Reading is Critical for StudentsThere are milestones that every family looks forward to in the development of their children. The first night they sleep all night. Their first steps. The first words they speak. The first day they attend school (and the last day). Starting that awkward trek from childhood to adulthood. All of these little steps go by…
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Want to Teach Social Skills? Start with Reading
Read more: Want to Teach Social Skills? Start with ReadingReaders pick up books to be entertained by the stories they tell. Take Charlotte’s Web for example. It is the story of a girl, Fern, and a runt-of-the-litter pig named Wilbur. Wilbur learns that he is being fattened up for Christmas dinner, which rightfully saddens the pig. It is then that a spider named Charlotte…
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How Reading Changed My Life
Read more: How Reading Changed My LifeAnna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of eight novels and several nonfiction books. While a columnist at the New York Times, she won the Pulitzer Prize. How Reading Changed My Life, from which this selection is excerpted, explores the…
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The Importance of a School Library
Read more: The Importance of a School LibraryInformation, once something that trickled into our lives through newspapers, radio, television, and encyclopedias, now pours into our lives at a staggering rate. We have generated as much information in the last two years as we have in the rest of human history. In one month in 2011 alone, the Library of Congress gathered 235…