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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