Focus Areas

Literacy

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Literacy Academy Collective

Problem: New York City lacks not only adequate dyslexia and learning differences diagnosis methods but also teacher training, curricula, and public-school options for students with dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities. Solution: We...

Reading Science Microcredential

Problem: For decades, New York’s teacher preparation programs overwhelmingly trained educators in “balanced literacy” – an approach that encourages children to guess at words rather than decode them. Research has repeatedly...