A coalition of city of Wilmington elementary schools can tout growth in reading over the summer. In the Wilmington Learning Collaborative’s monthly meeting Tuesday night, Executive Director Laura Burgos presented the academic progress as a result of summer programming. The group contracted Reading Assist, a group contracted by the WLC that focuses on improving literacy rates, to help tutor students. …
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As the state continues to grapple with the sharp decline in reading scores in schools, one literacy group just received a grant to help Delawareans outside of the K-12 system. Literacy Delaware, which focuses on teaching First State adults how to speak English and read, has been granted $8,000 from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, a national group that has …
A report from a national nonprofit focused on the wellbeing of America’s children confirms what most Delawareans have learned over the past couple of years: education in the First State is far from first. The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 54-page report lists Delaware 45th in education – or sixth worst in the entire country. But, it highlights a lot of …
Delaware pours billions of dollars into education each year, only to receive stressful news like some of the lowest standardized test scores in the country. A number of Delaware nonprofits devoted to improving education in the state want to see more impact for the state in jobs, test scores and another areas. Some have specific focuses such as encouraging more …
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A Delaware nonprofit focusing on ensuring First State adults can read and write announced it has been awarded nearly $20,000 to carry out one of its programs. Literacy Delaware helps adults to significantly improve their literacy skills to reach their goals of employment, parenting and civic engagement. Last year alone, the group’s programming provided 7,000 hours of tutoring instruction to adults …
State education officials, legislators are moving to be sure the science of reading is used when teaching public students. Delaware’s once highly ranked reading scores now are worse than those in Mississippi. Much worse. In 2002 Delaware fourth graders outperformed Mississippi’s by 21 points on national scores, with the First State well above the national average. Today, after a …
