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Good Work | The Humboldt Literacy Project has helped hundred learn to read

The folks at the Humboldt Literacy Project estimate that some 14,000 of our neighbors in Humboldt are functionally illiterate. That means they would struggle to fill out a form or understand ...
Education Week

Many Adults Did Not Learn Media Literacy Skills in High School. What Schools Can Do Now

Children and adults alike get bombarded with questionable information every day, whether it’s fake TikTok videos on the war in Ukraine, targeted ads on Facebook, or disinformation on climate change on ...
EdSource

A movement rises to change the teaching of reading

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. When Esti Iturralde’s daughter Winnie was in first grade, the girl struggled with learning to read. Like most parents, Iturralde blamed ...
The Conversation

Teaching the ‘basics’ is critical – but what teachers really want are clear guidelines and expectations

Christine Braid has been involved with the MoE NZC refresh as an advisor on the literacy indicators; and had worked on the scope and sequence, and decodable text resources for the MoE. Te Kunenga ki ...
ProPublica

A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why Are We Failing to Teach Them?

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In Amite County, Mississippi, where a third of adults ...