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 | Jun 21, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Marley Dias is only eleven, but she’s noticed something that slips right by many adults. Something about the books she reads for school. They’re not about her. She loves to read, but even at the age of ten, she was tired of reading books about white boys,...
by Sarah Green | Mar 11, 2016 | News
It would seem like the 21st century poses new challenges to engaging young readers and overcoming the (unfortunately growing) reading gap between lower and higher income students, and in getting kids to develop their readings skills past the fourth grade level. The...
by Sarah Green | Jun 22, 2015 | Parent Issues, Student Issues
When teachers are asked what they wish parents would do to jump-start their young children before entering school, they almost universally have one answer: Get your kid reading. Now, we live in an era when ‘school’ commonly starts with early-admission...
by Sarah Green | Nov 18, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
Learning how to read and write are the first big milestones in a child’s education. Rosetta Stone Inc., whom you have probably heard of from their popular foreign language-learning software, has worked in collaboration with the experts at Lexia Learning to create an...