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Posted On May 10, 2012 | (0) Comments
Last week at Brennemann Elementary School, Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) Executive Director, Kelly Hunter, Ed.D., had the opportunity to host Laysha Ward, President, Community Relations, Target in a kindergarten CLI Model Classroom...
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Posted On May 3, 2012 | (0) Comments
More and more people are discovering what we’ve known all along: that smart investments in educating our youngest children pay off. In this era of limited dollars and economic challenges, early childhood advocates are increasingly making a...
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Posted On Apr 26, 2012 | (0) Comments
A task force led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein released a report that states American students rank behind their peers in reading, math and science in many other developed and...
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Posted On Apr 19, 2012 | (0) Comments
One third-grade student at Chicago’s Armour Elementary summed up our feelings about the exciting collaboration with Target and Chicago Public Schools. “I feel brand new!” he exclaimed after checking out a book from his...
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Posted On Apr 12, 2012 | (0) Comments
As CLI shifts its focus to school-wide transformation, it’s fitting that Chief Academic Officer and Director of Professional Development Rahshene Davis understands the mindset of school leaders. A former principal, Davis was named the...
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Posted On Apr 5, 2012 | (0) Comments
When school district officials in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, introduced a new curriculum two years ago, they did their homework—they made sure the model curriculum was aligned to state standards, carefully adapted it for use in all grade...
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Posted On Mar 29, 2012 | (0) Comments
Last week our executive director, Kelly Hunter, was a featured speaker during a session at the second Building a Grad Nation Summit in Washington. The Summit, sponsored by America’s Promise Alliance, gathered teachers, school administrators,...
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Posted On Mar 22, 2012 | (0) Comments
We’re very happy that more than 120 communities have made a lasting commitment to improve early literacy. A collaborative effort from funders across the nation, The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading shares our primary goal and reason for being...
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Posted On Mar 15, 2012 | (3) Comments
In Nicole Traore’s kindergarten classroom, a student is pointing to a word on a board. After thinking for a moment, her face brightens and she says it aloud: “Thrilled.”
“Whoa, Maya, big kid word,” Traore says,...
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Posted On Mar 8, 2012 | (0) Comments
In a recent commentary, WHYY’s Chris Satullo pointed out a fundamental problem we’re all too familiar with in our work—that the schools that should pay teachers the most usually pay the least. Satullo specifically mentioned...
A task force led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein released a report that states American students rank behind their peers in reading, math and science in many other developed and...
As CLI shifts its focus to school-wide transformation, it’s fitting that Chief Academic Officer and Director of Professional Development Rahshene Davis understands the mindset of school leaders. A former principal, Davis was named the...
In Nicole Traore’s kindergarten classroom, a student is pointing to a word on a board. After thinking for a moment, her face brightens and she says it aloud: “Thrilled.” “Whoa, Maya, big kid word,” Traore says,...
