There are 9 article(s) tagged reading:

• October 2024

  • Bridges chooses new leader

    Sam O’Bryant will leave Literacy Mid-South to take over as president and CEO of Bridges later this year.

    By Jody Callahan October 30, 2024

  • Memphis Reads introduces kids to authors from around the world

    The program hasn’t been without controversy, though. In 2023, Memphis Reads officials chose the book “His Name Is George Floyd” by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa.

    By Jody Callahan October 11, 2024

• April 2024

  • Tennessee 4th graders await test scores — and outcome of debate on policies that could hold back thousands

    Carly Fair, who has children in Tennessee public schools, was a lobbyist at the state Capitol for families like hers who have a fourth-grade child at risk of being held back under a 2021 reading law.

    By Marta W. Aldrich April 25, 2024

• August 2021

  • Latest TCAP results show significant learning loss

    The Tennessee Department of Education released statewide testing numbers Monday, the first batch of data since schools closed in the spring of 2020. 

    By Daja E. Henry August 03, 2021

• May 2021

  • The Politics of Phonics: Phonics fundamentalists and balanced literacy true believers

    Most educators agree reading instruction in the earliest grades should include phonics, but that’s where the disagreements begin.

    By David Waters May 27, 2021

  • The Politics of Phonics: Teaching from the radical middle

    Despite all the “top-down” efforts to guide reading instruction, effective teachers know that all programs and methods work for some children, but none work for every child.

    By David Waters May 09, 2021

  • The Politics of Phonics: How a skill becomes a law

    Tennessee governors have been remaking school reading policies for 40 years, and yet reading achievement scores have barely budged.

    By David Waters May 07, 2021

  • The Politics of Phonics: Power, profit and politics guide reading

    Tennessee’s new elementary school reading policies are the product of a tangled web of government, business and academics that has reshaped national and state reading policies time and again.

    By David Waters May 06, 2021

• April 2021

  • Collierville Literacy Council expands vision under new leadership

    Collierville Literacy Council is expanding its efforts under new leadership. In addition to its existing efforts, it is expanding to teach more forms of literacy and adding more programs for children.

    By Abigail Warren April 22, 2021