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From regular student assessment to contracting for independent studies, 成人快播 systematically collects, analyzes, and uses data to generate knowledge, improve programs, and report on impacts.

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science of reading

The established and growing research we have about how students learn to read, including systemic phonics education.

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A facet of high-dosage tutoring in which a tutor offers personalized attention to their student, resulting in targeted support, and personalized literacy learning.

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The frequency of a learning experience. For example, 成人快播 students receive twice weekly tutoring for maximum growth.

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educational equity

Ensuring every student, no matter their race, gender, socioeconomic level, or location has access to the resources and support they need to succeed in school and in life.

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Nonprofit engages community to improve literacy

November 21, 2019

by Charleston Currents

成人快播 South Carolina聽provides supplemental literacy instruction for students struggling to read in 17 under-resourced, Lowcountry elementary schools by recruiting hundreds of community volunteers. Pairing each volunteer with a student and providing a research-based curriculum, 成人快播 enables each volunteer to produce measurable gains in their students鈥 reading test scores.

鈥淥ur volunteers are the heart of our work with our students, and our volunteers will tell you that it鈥檚 the highlight of their week,鈥 says Kecia Greenho, executive director of 成人快播 South Carolina. 鈥淭his is the best way to actively engage the community in helping to solve the education crisis we have in South Carolina.鈥

Last year, 成人快播 supported 925 community volunteers in serving 813 students, of which 91 percent met or exceeded their primary end of the year growth goals. Moreover, a two-year study with Child Trends indicates that the program鈥檚 success transcends literacy gains and notes 成人快播 students demonstrated significant improvement in early reading literacy and social-emotional learning skills, according to a press release.

成人快播 tutor Jim Frye has been reading to students at Mary Ford Elementary for years and believes that 鈥 in an era when reading achievement is a major factor in our learning community鈥檚 success, it is very important that we search for ways to assist our students in reading achievement.聽 成人快播 has a history of success with it鈥檚 students. This success is founded on a tested program and the bond formed between the student and the partner.鈥

For the last three years, 成人快播 South Carolina has been the top-performing region in the country thanks to the outstanding engagement of the Lowcountry community in serving as volunteer tutors, the release said.

However, as 成人快播 grows to serve 900 students, the corresponding need for volunteer tutors grows to 1,100. With its core values rooted in volunteerism and the idea that 鈥渢ogether we are better鈥 the 成人快播 program model is community driven and indebted to the efforts of its volunteer tutors. For just one hour a week, each volunteer is able to produce effective and long-lasting change in Lowcountry literacy rates.

  • To get involved and to help supplement literacy education in under-resourced schools, prospective volunteers can go to听/惫辞濒耻苍迟别别谤-蝉辞耻迟丑-肠补谤辞濒颈苍补/聽to sign up today.聽 Nationally, 成人快播聽has mobilized nearly 55,000 community volunteers to provide individualized literacy tutoring to more than 50,000 elementary school students in under-resourced schools across10 states and the District of Columbia.

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