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Literacy Beyond the Classroom
Kimora Carr Even on a busy afternoon, education doesn’t pause when Mary Belous’ household leaves school. As backpacks are put up, shoes are taken off, the books are still left out. For Mary Belou, a Mandeville, Louisiana mother of four and a registered nurse, reading isn’t left solely in the hands of her children's teachers. As a mother of four children, who are all in the earlier grades of elementary, Belou finds that it is very important for children to not only read in t
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Reading and writing levels are falling in public schools. Technology may be to blame
Laura Allen When students’ scores began to dip following the COVID-19 lockdown, the pandemic was an obvious scapegoat. Afterall, nearly half of all public schools in the U.S. did not return to in- person learning until the fall of 2021, a year and half after the initial shutdown. Even with this setback, scores were expected to bounce back once students returned to school. They didn’t. In fact, literacy rates are still on the decline. Parents and educators ask, why can’t the
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