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All posts tagged "tennessee reading gap"

As a reward, Saimiya Swift, 4, gets to be the “brain” in the class for a day as children read out loud from the board during Alice Holman’s pre-K class at Porter-Leath’s Douglas Head Start School on April 23, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

As a reward, Saimiya Swift, 4, gets to be the “brain” in the class for a day as children read out loud from the board during Alice Holman’s pre-K class at Porter-Leath’s Douglas Head Start School on April 23, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

The Need to Read

Part 3: Costly failures come with lessons for ‘teacher town’: Reading success begins at birth

Bush, Obama, Gates pushed reforms, but local innovators have better ideas

David WatersMay 18, 2019

Dontae’vah Walton and Jaida Anderson (right) rearrange letters to spell words from a class reading assignment in Michelle Biggs’ (left) kindergarten class at Keystone Elementary School on April 12, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Dontae’vah Walton and Jaida Anderson (right) rearrange letters to spell words from a class reading assignment in Michelle Biggs’ (left) kindergarten class at Keystone Elementary School on April 12, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

The Need to Read

Part 2: Complex Plans, demands challenge reading teachers to be classroom maestros

Top-down reforms can't replace 'skilled and knowledgeable teacher'

David WatersMay 17, 2019

Madison Clark (left), Ayanna Hughes, La’kiya Carr and Jaylen King work at an easel where they color their reading assignment in Thomas Denson’s Pre-K class at Cherokee Elementary School. More than three in four Shelby County elementary students, and four in five middle and high school students, read below grade level. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Madison Clark (left), Ayanna Hughes, La’kiya Carr and Jaylen King work at an easel where they color their reading assignment in Thomas Denson’s Pre-K class at Cherokee Elementary School. More than three in four Shelby County elementary students, and four in five middle and high school students, read below grade level. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

The Need to Read

Part 1: Chronic poverty, trauma complicate efforts to close third-grade reading gap in Memphis

"When kids are in survival mode, they can't learn."

David WatersMay 16, 2019