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Learning​ ​Ovations,​ ​Digital​ ​Promise,​ ​UCI,​ ​and​ ​MDRC​ ​Awarded​ ​U.S.​ ​Department​ ​of​ ​Education

October 24, 2017 by Carol Connor Leave a Comment

EIR​ ​Grant​ ​to​ ​Scale​ ​Personalized​ ​Literacy​ ​Instruction​

Learning Ovations, Digital Promise, the University of California, Irvine and MDRC have been awarded a U.S. Department of Education five-year Education Innovation and Research (EIR) expansion grant totaling $14.65 million for the United2Read project!

The Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program provides funding to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field-initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students; and rigorously evaluate such innovations. The EIR program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent educational challenges and to support the expansion of effective solutions to serve substantially larger numbers of students.

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Voice of Literacy podcast

October 12, 2017 by Carol Connor Leave a Comment



Voice of Literacy Podcast

http://www.voiceofliteracy.org

Listen to bi-weekly podcasts (available 1st and 3rd Mondays) of interviews with literacy researchers as they discuss the implications of their research. Teachers, parents, principals, and policymakers are invited to listen and discuss ways to improve literacy instruction.


Dr. Connor’s Interview on the Voice of Literacy Podcast

Join Dr. Elizabeth A. Baker (Professor, Literacy Studies, University of Missouri) as she interviews top literacy professors, including Dr. Connor, on her podcast Voice of Literacy (VOL)!

VOL is celebrating 9 years of broadcasting interviews with top literacy researchers and the VOL podcasts have been requested nearly 2.5 million times!  To celebrate the accomplishments, Season 10 (which started September 4, 2017) will feature the most requested podcasts from Seasons 3 and 4. This includes Dr, Connor’s episode titled The Using children’s literacy skills to differentiate reading comprehension instruction. Find it here!

Early Learning Network video: Introduction to the Network

October 2, 2017 by Carol Connor Leave a Comment

Early Learning Network releases introductory video

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