2 grade reading proficiency essential assurances quality teaching in every setting seamless...
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2
grade reading
proficiency
Essential Assurances
Quality teaching in every setting
Seamless systems of care, services and family supports, 0-8
Community solutions to barriers faced by the children least likely to succeed
Investment Strategies (Time, Talent, Dollars)
Replicate and scale what works
Create proof points of success and scale
Milestones
By 2015/2016
Progress on the strategies
Progress on the community solutions
Progress on student performance
By 2020
A dozen states or more have increased by at least 100% the number of low-income children reading proficiently by the end of 3rd grade
Promising trend line and sustainable momentum
How to disrupt intergenerational
poverty?
Organize and mobilize the “big tent”
3rd
9-22-13
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1,600 local organizations (including over 100 local funders)
Reading proficiency by the end of 3rd grade is the most important predictor of high school graduation and career success. Yet every year, more than 80% of children from low-income families miss this crucial milestone. The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is leading the charge to reverse this catastrophic trend and working with communities nationwide to ensure every child has a chance to read well. Learn more at www.gradelevelreading.net
Grade-Level Reading Network Communities
• An enabling narrative that pushes against paralysis and gridlock
• A broad and deep consensus around high school graduation
• The common sense translation of research into accessible messages
• Goals and targets that are ambitious, achievable and actionable
Recipe for Successful “Big Tent” Mobilization
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