Press EdWeek: Reading Interventions for Older Students May Be Missing a Key Component It’s a well-worn adage in education that students first learn to read, and then read to learn. At some point, Andres Bolivar
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Press The74: New Study: Many Older Students Struggle to Push Beyond Reading ‘Threshold’ To comprehend what they’re reading, many middle and high school students still need decoding support, researchers say. New research shows Andres Bolivar
Press Developing Ed Tech With a Focus on Students, Teachers and the Research The need for innovative solutions to help students recover from pandemic learning disruptions and an unpredictable future of work has Yasmene Mumby
Press ‘Talking Out of School’ podcast: How to create inclusive philanthropy models Seeding scientific discovery and research and development (R&D) for the future of education… I think people get excited about that. Yasmene Mumby
Press Struggling Teenagers Left Out in New Push to Overhaul Reading The New York Times interviewed Rebecca Kockler, who leads Reading Reimagined, an Advanced Education Research and Development Fund (AERDF) program, Yasmene Mumby
Press Why Do Literacy Retention Policies Target 3rd Grade? We know that every kid can learn to read. The burden is on our system to figure out why 70 Yasmene Mumby
Press EF+Math R&D team Fraction Ball combines physical activity and math to help third-to fifth-graders understand fractions and decimals through basketball games. Used in 18 southern California schools, the program has led to improvements in students’ rational number understanding and executive functioning Yasmene Mumby
Press A Conversation with Auditi Chakravarty of AERDF on Education Research and Development Measuring EdTech’s Impact Tom Vander Ark was recently at ISTE 2024 where he got the chance to sit down with Auditi Chakravarty, CEO of Yasmene Mumby