by Supporting Education | May 10, 2019 | News, Student Issues
South Korea’s rural communities are disappearing, slowly but steadily. Young men and women, seeking opportunity, are moving to large cities out of the country, and as a result the small nation has one of the lowest birthrates in the world – less than one child per...
by Supporting Education | Mar 22, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In 2018, a study was conducted for Australian National University into the effects of childhood literary immersion on long-term literacy. They found that adults who grew up in a home rich with books (and presumably, parents who valued books) performed as well in...
by Sarah Green | Nov 28, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Tennessee Department of Education, along with 90 school districts in the state, is creating Read to Be Ready. This program is designed to train teachers in the best techniques for teaching literacy to young students. Tennessee has an acknowledged problem with...
by Supporting Education | Jul 26, 2016 | Other, Student Issues
Study after study has shown that children from poor families, especially those living below the poverty line, tend not to perform as well as children from wealthier families. There have been a lot of arguments to explain this, and it’s not uncommon for those arguments...
by Sarah Green | Oct 23, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Literacy is one of the things children most need to learn to be successful in today’s world. A child who doesn’t learn to read properly can fall behind quickly in school, miss out on opportunities, struggle even throughout adulthood. But literacy isn’t just something...