ds, and the price of services, state and local education agency teams will be able to identify both reduction and investment opportunities to address critical short-term issues while planning for long-term recovery.
Learning Forward released this resource to support state, district, and school leaders with the implementation of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials through professional learning that is intensive, data-driven, job-embedded, and classroom-focused.
COVID-19 and Third-Grade Reading Policies: An Analysis of State Guidance on Third-Grade Reading Policies in Response to COVID-19
This policy brief from the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative at Michigan State University explores the guidance that states issued during the COVID-19 pandemic related to third-grade reading policies and provides takeaways for how the current educational environment may impact their future. Findings include: very few states issued guidance that specifically referenced their third-grade reading policy, few states addressed retention policies in COVID-19 guidance, and literacy interventions were not widely addressed in states’ COVID-19 guidance.