August 15, 2011

Stanford launches Carnegie, Gates-funded effort to improve English Language Learner access to Common Core State Standards

Stanford University researchers today announced the launch of a national initiative to help English Language Learners (ELLs) meet the Common Core State Standards in language arts and mathematics, as...
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May 6, 2011

New Tools Help Teachers To Teach "Academic Vocabulary"

Press Trust

Content area teachers are often faced, for example, with presenting science text to English Language Learners and students who struggle with reading. Teachers do not always feel comfortable teaching...
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February 1, 2011

Education Funders Group Calls for ELLs to Be High Priority

Education Week

If philanthropists want to see education improve in this country, they need to focus more on the needs of English-language learners...One foundation that has been active in this area is Carnegie...
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January 3, 2011

Full Speed Ahead: Our leadership summit examines the wildly changing world of reading

School Library Journal

Better fasten your seat belts. The face of reading is changing, and it’s happening at a much faster rate than most people had imagined. Where’s it all going? What factors are driving the most...
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October 25, 2010

SLJ Leadership Summit 2010: Librarians and Ereaders

School Library Journal

When it comes to discussing the role of ereaders in education, why are librarians often left out of the equation? That was one of the hottest topics during Saturday's panel discussion "The Future of...
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October 20, 2010

Schools Test E-Reader Devices With Dyslexic Students

Education Week

Andres Henriquez comments on how educators are turning to e-readers to help students with dyslexia and other reading disabilities, but the jury is still out on the impact those digital tools are...
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June 17, 2010

IES Targets Reading with $100 Million in Grants

Education Week

The Institute of Education Sciences announced it was extending a Carnegie Corporation-supported program by awarding $100 million in grants to promote reading comprehension in students from preschool...
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June 11, 2010

Department of Education Invests $19 Million to Extend Carnegie Corporation-Supported Reading Comprehension R&D

Washington, DC, June 10, 2010--The Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute (SERP) is launching a five year program of research and development on reading comprehension, thanks to a...
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April 19, 2010

How Writing Improves Reading Skills--Study

Washington Post

Reading has long been recognized as a way to improve a student’s writing. A new study says the reverse -- that writing can improve reading skills as well as content learning -- is equally true, and...
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April 15, 2010

Writing Can Improve Reading Skill, Study Finds

Education Week

Specific writing strategies can play an important role in boosting reading comprehension. That's the bottom-line finding of a new analysis of research from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which...
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