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Scholastic, Inc.
Scholastic, Inc., a global children’s publishing,
education and media company, is the largest publisher of children’s books
worldwide. It has a corporate mission to help children around the world read and
learn. Scholastic is the creator of the READ 180 program, an intensive reading
intervention program that helps educators confront the problem of adolescent
illiteracy and special needs reading on multiple fronts, using technology,
print, and professional development. This program is in over 10,000 classrooms
today.
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Scholastic believes that Congress has the
opportunity to reclaim America’s youth who are in middle and high schools
struggling to read and to learn. Scholastic has made improving adolescent literacy their public policy priority
and the company believes that reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act is an opportunity to help states and
school districts develop a comprehensive K-12 reading policy that will
increase the reading achievement of all of our nation’s students. |
Scholastic argues that without increasing attention and
resources directed to students in middle and high schools, it is impossible to
attain the goal of having all children able to read and do math at grade
level by 2014.
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Readers Act, grants to help school districts improve student achievement and
high school graduation rates by ensuring that students in grades 4-12 who
struggle to read at grade level receive the literacy interventions needed to
succeed in school. |
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Scholastic is actively involved in implementing the
current Striving
Readers grants. READ 180 is used in four of the eight
large Striving Readers grants that been awarded – Newark, NJ; Memphis, TN;
Springfield-Chicopee, MA; and the Ohio Department of Student Services for
students in state juvenile corrections facilities. In addition, Scholastic
supports an expanded Striving Readers initiative that has been introduced in
both the House and Senate (S. 958 and H.R. 2289).
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