March 9, 2022 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Birmingham-based Summer Adventures in Learning (SAIL) is awarding $785,600 in grants to 29 independent summer learning programs in the Birmingham area and the Blackbelt region. Grantees will use the funds to offer comprehensive reading and…
Continue ReadingSAIL’s community approach to summer learning an easy home run for math, reading gains By David Osinski | Executive director of the American Baseball FoundationThis is a guest opinion column. State lawmakers are soon expected to consider legislation authorizing new resources to…
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Alabama kids make record summer learning gains after starting with record low assessment scores Hadley Hitson Montgomery Advertiser As the 2020 school year came to a close, one boy in Greensboro, Alabama, finished the first grade without being able to spell his name. …
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July 15, 2021 By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Gov. Kay Ivey and education leaders are stressing the importance of expanding summer learning throughout the state on Wednesday as educators seek to help students recover from learning loss sustained…
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by: Peter Curi Posted: Jul 14, 2021 / 07:31 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 14, 2021 / 12:11 PM CDT Posted: Jul 14, 2021 / 07:31 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 14, 2021 / 12:11 PM CDT SUBSCRIBE NOWCBS 42 Daily News SIGN UP BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — After…
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Concepts to Enable Alabama Students to Achieve Their Fullest Potential A study commissioned by the Business Education Alliance of Alabama and prepared by the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, Alabama faces both a monumental educational…
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Don’t call it summer school: Battling the COVID slide in math, science, reading with summer programs
By Trisha Powell Crain | tcrain@al.com This story is a project from the Alabama Education Lab, a new initiative from AL.com, and was supported through funding from the Solutions Journalism Network. To learn more about the Ed Lab and to get alerts about future…
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MARCH 10, 2021 By MATT SMITH, A+ Education Partnership As a former high school teacher, middle school principal, and central office administrator in several different school districts, I have seen firsthand how federal, state, and local policy decisions reverberate through our schools…
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