Where reading sprouts: Children’s Day at the Hernando Farmers Market
Children’s Day is slated for Saturday at the Hernando Farmers Market with a focus on drawing interest for children’s books and better food choices.
Topic: reading
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May 2025
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February 2025
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Collierville Schools reading, math levels rebound to pre-pandemic levels
A Collierville Schools official credited an investment in teachers and classroom resources for the boosted test scores.
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October 2024
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Bridges chooses new leader
Sam O’Bryant will leave Literacy Mid-South to take over as president and CEO of Bridges later this year.
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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.
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April 2024
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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.
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August 2021
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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.
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May 2021
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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April 2021
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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.
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