There are 4 article(s) tagged Read to be Ready:

• January 2020

  • Five education issues to watch as state legislators convene this week

    Likely to lead the 2020 agenda will be proposals to improve students’ reading skills and increase teacher compensation, two needs that most every lawmaker can agree on.

    By Marta W. Aldrich January 13, 2020

• August 2019

  • Summer reading camps are popular, getting results – and in peril

    Read to be Ready camps first opened in 2016, and Tennessee has expanded the program annually with funding from the U.S. Department of Human Services. But state officials learned in January that the federal grant now has to be used for child care programs.

    By Kathryn Palmer, Marta W. Aldrich August 26, 2019

• June 2019

  • As funding shrinks reading program, Gov. Lee says literacy is a priority

    Tennessee used discretionary funds to ensure the Read to be Ready camps continue this summer, but there was no reprieve for a major component of the reading initiative: a statewide network of coaches created three years ago to help teachers improve their literacy instruction.

    By Laura Faith Kebede, Marta W. Aldrich June 12, 2019

  • Tennessee’s literacy initiative in jeopardy as funding dries up

    “I’m really struggling to see how equity is in the equation when 114 districts suffer” as Read to be Ready collapses. – Superintendent Joey Hassell of Haywood County Schools, a rural district near Memphis. 

    By Marta W. Aldrich June 11, 2019