Literacy Today May/June 2016

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BY THE NUMBERS

100th

The birthday celebrated

last month by beloved

author Beverly Cleary.

Fans around the world

celebrated, too, including

the New York Public

Library, which collected

100 stories from patrons

and librarians about their

love of her books.

108

Percent increase

of the number

of female public

school principals

from 1988–2012,

according to a new

demographics

report from the

National Center for

Education Statistics

11,000

Number of

classroom projects

funded through

Stephen Colbert’s

#BestSchoolDay

campaign, which has

led to $14 million in

funding for projects

in 47 states on

DonorsChoose.org

$10,000

First-place

Entrepreneurship Across

Yale prize awarded to

StoryTime, founded by

student Phil Esterman,

which sends free stories

via text messaging apps

to low-income families

to help close the early

literacy skills gap

18.2

Average number of extra

minutes of sleep per night

found to increase elementary

students’ academic

performance, according

to researchers at McGill

University and the Douglas

Mental Health University

Institute, in partnership with

the Riverside School Board in

Montreal

Leaders for

Literacy

Day 2016

A panel of

cross-sector

leaders came

together

at the

Institute of

International Education in New York

City on April 14 for ILA’s second annual

Leaders for Literacy Day, which focused

on literacy leadership as a critical

driver to advancing literacy around

the globe. Panelists included Steven

Duggan, Microsoft; Leslie Engle Young,

Pencils of Promise; Jody Spiro, The

Wallace Foundation; Christie Vilsack,

USAID; and Marcie Craig Post, ILA’s

executive director. For full coverage, visit

literacyworldwide.org/L4L.

Now is the time for reform

To support literacy learning adequately, we must resist a

one-size-fits-all approach. To provide a roadmap toward

that goal, ILA released a new white paper—Frameworks

for Literacy Education Reform—which offers guidance

on developing and evaluating literacy education reforms.

Each of the suggested frameworks focuses on a specific

component of the education sector: literacy teaching

and teachers, schools

and schooling, student

support, and families

and community.

To view the

white paper, visit

literacyworldwide

.org/frameworks.

LITERACY TODAY | May/June 2016

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