Faculty members at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) announced they are launching Reach Every Reader, a five-year initiative combining the institutions’ expertise in cognitive science, reading, learning technologies, and evaluation to assist children in thriving and succeeding as readers. While reading is essential for learning, students in the United States often complete elementary school with inadequate reading abilities, which can lead to difficulties throughout their academic careers. A student who fails to read in first grade has a 90% probability of reading poorly in...
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