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SRN Staff
School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / July 01, 2006
The Literacy Empowerment Foundation (LEF) has increased the size of its matching grants to $10,000 per school. A school can now order $20,000 worth of books ... (read more)

Kate McGreevy
School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / May 01, 2006
With adolescent literacy rates flattening across the nation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York is renewing its investment in a 2002 national initiative ... (read more)

SRN Staff
School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / March 01, 2006
Everybody knows reading to kids is a good thing. But there are some ways to make it more fun and productive. National literacy expert Steve Peha, president ... (read more)

Kate McGreevy
School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / March 01, 2005
U.S. students in grades 4-12 are not meeting state or national goals in reading achievement, a recently released RAND Corporation report warns. The authors ... (read more)

George A. Clowes
School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / March 01, 2005
The parent organization of the Lewis Lemon public school in Rockford, Illinois is asking the local school board not to drop a three-year-old reading program ... (read more)

George A. Clowes
School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / June 01, 2004
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports student achievement in terms of four levels: Below Basic, Basic, Proficient, and Advanced. ... (read more)

Robert Holland
School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / June 01, 2004
As the Education Writers Association's awards demonstrate, newspaper reporters continue to produce thought-provoking and substantive stories. However, recent ... (read more)

George A. Clowes
School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / May 01, 2004
"When I was a teacher, I knew I was not as prepared as I should have been to teach certain subjects. Take reading, for example. Even with a degree in education ... (read more)

Herbert J. Walberg
School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / May 01, 2004
Because learning in most subjects depends on reading skills, reading proficiency can be considered the most important goal in the early grades. Yet, the ... (read more)

Robert Holland
School Reform News / The Heartland Institute / June 01, 2003
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), which examined the performance of 150,000 fourth-grade students throughout the world, found ... (read more)