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White House site offers early literacy tools, resources

The end of third grade is the point at which children transition from learning to read to utilizing reading skills to understand the content of all subject areas. To strengthen third-grade reading proficiency for all students, particularly for students of color and students with disabilities, the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper Taskforce has established a dedicated early literacy website to [...]

Nominate Champions of Change

All across the country, Americans are doing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world. Every week, the White House invites the public to tell the stories of “Champions of Change” at www.whitehouse.gov/champions. One theme of service is education and empowerment, which is for innovative teachers and school leaders creating engaging and rigorous [...]