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Intentional Education

Large budgets, funds, and grants are invested every year in education. Nevertheless, literacy rates in the world’s remotest communities are decreasing every year. We need to collectively rethink and re-evaluate the future of education.

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Underpaid in America: Decreased Spending Results in Underpaid Teachers

The unprecedented challenges in 2020 have emphasized the importance of a teacher’s role in society. Sadly, teachers in the United States continue to be underpaid having a profound impact on student’s performance.

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Reading During a Global Pandemic

The COVID-19 has become an obstruction to millions of students’ access to education across the globe. During this time, it is crucial to turn our gaze to the importance of literacy.

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Using a Creative Approach to Motivate Children to Read

Reading is an essential skill that every child should develop as early as possible. Unfortunately, some children struggle to hone their reading skills. Children can easily pick up interest in reading if their teacher is committed to identifying their reading needs. To read, kids need motivation.

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Building Rapport Online

Building positive relationships with learners can be easy in person but now educators face a new challenge: how can they build rapport and engage learners within a digital learning space?

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Education and COVID-19 in Nigeria

Learn more about the impact of school-closures due to COVID-19 on students in Nigeria who do not have access to computers and other devices to continue learning remotely.

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Education at War

Education is a privilege that is not accessible to all. Instead, the reality for many Colombians is survival. The torture that is seen daily is unimaginable, leaving many families and children very few options in life. Literacy could be the road to freedom.

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In Praise of the Humble Checklist

The less that students have to guess what they are expected to do, the more brain power they can spend on creative and critical thinking. As a teacher, one simple strategy has made a world of difference to my lessons by demystifying literacy tasks: the checklist.

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Volunteer for Literacy!

The World Literacy Foundation is a platform that focuses on ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to strive and succeed through literacy. Volunteering is one of the many ways to help address illiteracy, and many programs are available to provide the tools for change.

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Undiagnosed Learning Disabilities and Low Literacy Rates in the U.S.

Learning to read is something most people in the U.S. don’t remember well. While many people take for granted their ability to skim through a magazine in the checkout line, others struggle to put their thoughts to paper or to interpret articles, books, and other media. For adults and young people living with a Specified Learning Disability (SLD), literacy is a challenge that doesn’t begin and end in the classroom.

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