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What Matters Most? Advancing Adolescent Literacy

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Nearly 70 percent of eighth graders scored below “proficient” and, of those, 30 percent scored “below basic” according to the 2022 National Assessment of Education Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card. We have to do better! As the momentum of science of reading takes hold of our national conversation, the time is now to dial into aligned approaches for adolescents. Join us as experts Dr. Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Barbara Davidson, and Janise Lane dialogue about approaches to building literacy beyond foundational skills: once phonemic proficiency, decoding, and fluent reading is established- what’s next for a reader? Whether this transition occurs […]

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