2024
June 24, 2024 Chalkbeat : “Math instruction overhaul: NYC unveils new curriculum mandate for middle and high schools” Read Full Article
June 6, 2024 EdNC : “Perspective | Teachers are the heroes of the literacy story in North Carolina” Read Full Article
May 24, 2024 The Dallas Morning News : “How Don Quixote changed a Dallas public school classroom” Read Full Article
May 2, 2024 Akron.com : “Tutoring program at Summit Academy Akron Elementary School attracts national interest” Read Full Article
April 25, 2024 Edutopia : “Using Tech Tools to Energize Young Students’ Math Learning” Read Full Article
April 4, 2024 EdNC : “State Board hears update on district ESSER spending, literacy data, and Restart schools” Read Full Article
March 22, 2024 Thomas B Fordham Institute : “Five takeaways from Ohio’s baseline survey of elementary reading curricula” Read Full Article
March 15, 2024 The 74 : “New Data: Despite K-2 Reading Gains, Students Face a ‘Much Harder Journey’ Ahead” Read Full Article
March 5, 2024 The 74 : “Case Study: How One Texas School District Is Repurposing Staff Development Time to Embrace the Science of Reading” Read Full Article
February 21, 2024 Times Record News : “UPDATED: Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath likes what he sees at local school” Read Full Article
February 19, 2024 Chalkbeat : “Chicago Public Schools recover from pandemic declines more than other districts, study shows” Read Full Article
February 7, 2024 The 74 : “Building Oral Language Skills and Equity Through High-Quality Reading Curriculum” Read Full Article
2023
December 19, 2023 The 74 : “Best Education Articles of 2023: Our 23 Most Important Stories About Students, Schools & Learning Recovery ” Read Full Article
December 8, 2023 Education Week : “Aligned Science Curriculum, Better Scores? Research Finds a Connection” Read Full Article
December 6, 2023 WRAL News : “Reading readiness rises in NC’s K-3 classrooms, new data shows” Read Full Article
November 27, 2023 The Dallas Morning News : “Dallas’ new lessons aim to keep kids on track, but some worry about limiting teachers” Read Full Article
November 2, 2023 Fort Worth Report : “Black students in Fort Worth ISD still struggle to read at grade level” Read Full Article
October 31, 2023 Chicago Tribune : “Lake Forest-area schools take stock of state grades; ‘While we celebrate our successes, we acknowledge that the journey … is ongoing’” Read Full Article
October 19, 2023 Chalkbeat : “NYC eyes middle and high school literacy overhaul. It’s asking families to weigh in.” Read Full Article
October 16, 2023 The 74 : “As Virginia Rolls Out Ambitious Statewide High-Dosage Tutoring Effort This Week, 3 Keys to Success” Read Full Article
October 6, 2023 Language Magazine : “Embracing Bilingual Assessment” Read Full Article
September 18, 2023 Chalkbeat : “Chicago Public Schools hired hundreds of tutors with federal COVID money. Can they keep them?” Read Full Article
September 7, 2023 EdNC : “Perspective | Union County Public Schools empowers educators, elevates readers” Read Full Article
August 14, 2023 Chicago Parent : “Common Core Math: How to Help Your Kids” Read Full Article
August 6, 2023 The News & Observer : “NC sees big increase in reading skills among K-3 students. Is the state back on track?” Read Full Article
August 4, 2023 The 74 : “Slow Literacy Gains, Long COVID in Kids: 7 Insights into Pandemic Recovery and Aftermath in U.S. Schools” Read Full Article
August 3, 2023 EdNC : “State Board of Education: New reading data, parental leave, and a call to support public schools” Read Full Article
July 28, 2023 Houston Public Media : “New literacy curriculum is among the many changes coming to HISD” Read Full Article
July 17, 2023 Houston Chronicle : “Mike Miles says HISD schools will teach the ‘science of reading.’ Here’s what that means.” Read Full Article
July 11, 2023 The 74 : “‘Education’s Long COVID’: New Data Shows Recovery Stalled for Most Students” Read Full Article
July 6, 2023 Houston Chronicle : “HISD superintendent gives voluntary schools one last chance to back out of New Education System” Read Full Article
June 2, 2023 EdWeek Market Brief :”K-12 Dealmaking: Substitute Teaching Startup Secures $38M; Amplify Raises Undisclosed Series C” Read Full Article
May 25, 2023 The 74 : “Expanding Access to Tutors: Nonprofit Grants $6 Million to 32 Learning Organizations Across 20 States to Help More Students” Read Full Article
April 21, 2023 The 74 : “The ‘Transformation is Real’ as Science of Reading Takes Hold in N.C. Schools” Read Full Article
April 18, 2023 The 74 : “Louisiana District Ravaged by Hurricane & COVID is Bouncing Back with Science” Read Full Article
April 5, 2023 WFAE : “NC midyear reading data shows gains, but third-grade goals remain elusive” Read Full Article
April 5, 2023 EdNC : “K-3 students show growth in literacy skills, mid-year DPI data show” Read Full Article
March 24, 2023 The 74 : “COVID & School Recovery: Critics Warn Washington Bill Would Reduce Classroom Learning Time By 4 Hours a Week” Read Full Article
March 24, 2023 Edutopia : “Using Collective Leadership to Make a Major Shift in Your District” Read Full Article
March 15, 2023 K-12 Dive : “California at center of latest push for science-based reading approaches” Read Full Article
March 7, 2023 District Administration : “ESSER pressure: How one district intends to spend wisely as deadline looms” Read Full Article
March 3, 2023 The 74 : “‘The Other Long COVID’ Affecting Kids: Missed Opportunities” Read Full Article
March 2, 2023 3 WTKR : “More students on track to learn to read in 2022-2023 school year since start of pandemic, researchers say” Read Full Article
March 2, 2023 ABC 7 : “Reading skills rebounding for young students following pandemic disruptions” Read Full Article
March 1, 2023 K-12 Dive : “By The Numbers: DIBELS testing shows improved reading progress over last two years” Read Full Article
February 27, 2023 The 74 : “Exclusive: Despite K-2 Reading Gains, Results Flat for 3rd Grade ‘COVID Kids’” Read Full Article
February 27, 2023 Education Week : “Students’ Early Literacy Skills Are Rebounding. See What the Data Show” Read Full Article
February 7, 2023 The 74 : “Using High-Quality Curriculum Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Still Have Fun Learning” Read Full Article
January 13, 2023 NPR : “Can a middle school class help scientists create a cooler place to play?” Read Full Article
January 6, 2023 News & Record : “After a numbing low, NC students now heading in ‘right direction’ in reading, math” Read Full Article
January 5, 2023 CBS17.com : “K-3 students in NC make significant strides on literacy exams, DPI says” Read Full Article
2022
December 20, 2022 District Administration : “Literacy Under the Lights: 10 ways to bring the community back together” Read Full Article
December 14, 2022 The 74 : “14 Charts This Year That Helped Us Better Understand Covid’s Impact On Students Teachers and Schools” Read Full Article
December 14, 2022 The 74 : “Learning Loss Is Worse than NAEP Showed. Middle School Math Must Be the Priority” Read Full Article
November 21, 2022 Voicebot.ai : “SoapBox Labs Brings Child-Centered Voice AI to Dyslexia Detection Assessment” Read Full Article
October 24, 2022 Education Week : “Two Decades of Progress, Nearly Gone: National Math, Reading Scores Hit Historic Lows” Read Full Article
October 20, 2022 The 74 : “Exclusive Literacy Data: Small Gains Since Last Fall, But No Reading Rebound” Read Full Article
August 30, 2022 The 74 : “Test English Learners in the Languages They Speak at School and at Home” Read Full Article
August 29, 2022 WTKR TV NC : “News 3 investigates childhood literacy rates, raising money to give books to local kids for new school year” Read Full Article
August 28, 2022 EdNC : “Elementary students made growth last year in skills that lead to reading proficiency, new data show” Read Full Article
August 18, 2022 SHRM Blog : “The Great Resignation Skipped Us. Here’s why.” Read Full Article
August 16, 2022 Forbes : “Curious About Knowledge-Building Curricula? Check Out This Website” Read Full Article
July 20, 2022 District Administration : “Out-of-school STEM learning is much more powerful when it’s inclusive” Read Full Article
July 19, 2022 Chalkbeat : “The state of learning loss: 7 takeaways from the latest data” Read Full Article
June 28, 2022 The Preschool Podcast : “Early literacy strategies that stick with Darryl from Run-DMC and Makeda from Nickelodeon [Podcast]” Listen To The Podcast
May 24, 2022 Forbes : “States That Want To Boost Literacy Should Keep An Eye On Texas” Read Full Article
April 24, 2022 Business Ecosystem Alliance : “Ecosystems in Education–Collaborating to Efficiently Serve the End User” Watch Full Video
April 18, 2022 KQED Mind Shift : “Weighing the best strategies for reading intervention” Read Full Article
April 15, 2022 Fordham Institute : “Assessing a standards-aligned physical science curriculum” Read Full Article
March 23, 2022 The Baltimore Sun : “National test scores show student gains from in-person learning in all but a critical group: new and pre-readers | COMMENTARY” Read Full Article
March 15, 2022 NPR : “Two years ago schools shut down around the world. These are the biggest impacts” Read Full Article
March 11, 2022 The Hub – Dallas ISD : “Students at Greiner and Anson Jones Elementary find success in reading and writing with a new program” Read Full Article
March 10, 2022 NY Daily News : “Read it and weep: The new reading instruction emergency” Read Full Article
March 10, 2022 WISH TV Indianapolis : “Study shows student performance plummeted during pandemic” Read Full Article
March 9, 2022 New York Post : “Young students have suffered ‘alarming’ drops in reading skills during pandemic” Read Full Article
March 9, 2022 The Daily Caller : “Childhood Literacy Plummeted Following Pandemic Shutdowns, Studies Show” Read Full Article
March 8, 2022 The New York Times : “It’s ‘Alarming’: Children Are Severely Behind in Reading” Read Full Article
March 7, 2022 Education Next : “The Education Exchange: Pandemic Hurt Younger Students’ Learning Worse, Amplify Data Suggest” Listen to the Podcast
February 28, 2022 The 74 : “Our 12 Best Education Articles in February: Reflections on 700 Days of COVID Chaos, Setting a Bar for Unmasking in Schools, Burying Schools in Record Requests & More” Read Full Article
February 24, 2022 The Daily Advertiser : “Reading scores improve slightly, but pre-COVID reading levels are ‘the wrong goal’” Read Full Article
February 24, 2022 Wall Street Journal : “The School Shutdowns and Lost Literacy” Read Full Article
February 23, 2022 K-12 Dive : “DIBELS data illustrates pandemic reading setbacks” Read Full Article
February 22, 2022 ABC 7 Buffalo : “Children falling behind in reading” Read Full Article
February 18, 2022 The Carolina Journal : “Report: Elementary students lag in literacy due to pandemic” Read Full Article
February 16, 2022 The 74 : “‘We Have First-Graders Who Can’t Sing the Alphabet Song’: Pandemic Continues to Push Young Readers Off Track, New Data Shows” Read Full Article
February 16, 2022 Education Week : “More Than 1 in 3 Children Who Started School in the Pandemic Need ‘Intensive’ Reading Help” Read Full Article
February 4, 2022 Literary Hub : “EXCLUSIVE: Watch Joshua Bennett Discuss A.R. Ammons’s poem “Cascadilla Falls” Read Full Article
January 19, 2022 K-12 Dive : “Report: Colorado reading law update boosts quality of literacy curriculum” Read Full Article
2021
December 15, 2021 Chalkbeat : “How Denver plans to address a drop in early elementary reading scores” Read full article
December 8, 2021 The SHRM Blog : “What’s the Best Work Perk of All? Contributing to the Social Good” Read full article
November 13, 2021 Hechinger Report : ‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind” Read full article
October 20, 2021 Hechinger Report : “OPINION: Younger students were among those most hurt during the pandemic” Read full article
September 2, 2021 EdSurge : “An Edtech User’s Glossary to Speech Recognition and AI in the Classroom” Read full article
August 18, 2021 SoapBox Labs : “Can Speech Recognition Help Children Learn to Read?” Read full article
August 12, 2021 FOX Chicago Broadcast Interview: “Pandemic widens literacy gap for students” Read full article
August 3, 2021 T.H.E Journal: “More Students of Color at Risk in Reading After Pandemic” Read full article
July 28, 2021 The 74 : “Early Reading Skills See a Rebound From In-Person Learning, But Racial Gaps Have Grown Wider, Tests Show” Read full article
July 28, 2021 K-12 Dive : “Reports: Math, reading progress slowed during first full school year of pandemic” Read full article
July 20, 2021 EdNC : “The mCLASS reading assessment tool is back in North Carolina classrooms, but it’s going to look different” Read full article
July 5, 2021 WBAL : “Baltimore students from all socio-economic backgrounds get a chance to ‘Amplify’ their learning skills” Read full article
June 15, 2021 Language Magazine : “Using Evidence to Overcome Adversity” Read full article
May 7, 2021 The Dallas Morning News : “How can a one-minute kindergarten test help teachers tackle the ‘COVID slide’?” Read full article
April 20, 2021 Education Week: “ How Teachers and Curriculum Will Shape Ed Tech’s Future: A CEO Makes the Case” Read full article
March 24, 2021 The Hechinger Report: “ OPINION: Children will need summer tutors to make up for pandemic learning loss” Read full article
March 23, 2021 Education Week: “Most States Fail to Measure Teachers’ Knowledge of the ‘Science of Reading,’ Report Says” Read full article
March 17, 2021 Axios : “How online education and tutoring could fight COVID learning loss” Read full article
March 16, 2021 USA Today: “Students are struggling to read behind masks and screens during COVID-19, but ‘expectations are no different’” Read full article
March 16, 2021 The 74 : “ Schools and COVID, a Year Later: 12 Months After Classrooms Closed, 12 Key Things We’ve Learned About How the Pandemic Disrupted Student Learning” Read full article
February 25, 2021 K–12 Dive: “Reading gaps widen in mid-year data, especially for K-1 students of color” Read full article
February 24, 2021 The 74: “One Year into Pandemic, Far Fewer Young Students are on Target to Learn How to Read, Tests Show” Read full article
February 17, 2021 NBC Los Angeles: “Local Students Design Rovers in Mission to Mars Student Challenge” Read full article
February 5, 2021 District Administration: “To save literacy, focus first on high-quality core instruction” Read full article
February 4, 2021 The Hechinger Report: “ 5 ways schools hope to fight Covid-19 learning loss” Read full article
January 5, 2021 The 74: “Science Matters Now More than Ever. The Time to Start Teaching It Is in Elementary School” Read full article
2020
December 15, 2020 Education Week: “Students’ Reading Losses Could Strain Schools’ Capacity to Help Them Catch Up” Read full article
December 9, 2020 Education Post: “How to Help Beginning Readers During the Pandemic” Read full article
December 3, 2020 American Consortium for Equity in Education: “The Importance of Quality Curriculum With Industry Voice” Read full article
September 29, 2020 The 74 : “ Beyond the Scantron: Ed Tech CEO Larry Berger on Why the Pandemic Is No Excuse to Abscond Accountability and ‘Disruptions Are Great Opportunities to Try Something New’” Read full article
May 25, 2020 The 74: “Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 2: Why Is My Child Doing So Many Worksheets Right Now?” Read full article
February 5, 2020 Getting Smart P odcast : “Larry Berger on EdTech Past and Future” Read full article
