The Right To Literacy
Literacy is a Constitutional Right
https://hlerk.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/order-ends.pdf
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Congress provides funds, literacy must be funded.
https://congress.gov/114/plaws/publ95/PLAW-114publ95.pdf
( Public Law Subpart 2- Literacy Education for All, Results for the Nation Page 136-144)
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National Literacy Summit
We have had 130 years of bad practice”. David Steiner, director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins University. Despite cognitive scientists agreeing for decades on the best way to prepare young children to read, millions of students are still taught using outmoded or debunked methods with no scientific justification.
The Nation’s Report Card
From 1992-2020 Reading performance has not changed much.
These reports are pre COVID 19 - imagine what it will be after.