In this article, we provide a response to the article published in Language Magazine on Oct. 2, 2024, in which authors ...

Two years after Illinois literacy advocates started pushing the state to adopt research-backed reading curriculum, the Illinois State Board of Education finalized a comprehensive literacy plan ...

Patchwork solutions won’t fix it – we need a comprehensive state-level plan to improve reading results ... So it is timely that State Superintendent Tony Thurmond created a task force to focus on the ...

Eliminating barriers to employment is a philosophy that people who identify as free-market, small-government thinkers should support. Especially when there are still meaningful safeguards in place to ...

A state math and numeracy plan, mirroring the spirit of the recently implemented Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan, is ...

Louis to help advance literacy education across the St ... and federal district education organizations grants for the 2024 Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) program.

The task force hasn’t met for seven months. “Stay tuned,” he said during a news conference Wednesday. “We are literally trying to build together a comprehensive approach for addressing literacy in the ...

Eligible districts must submit an application that includes a plan to implement comprehensive literacy instruction and address the needs of students from birth through grade 12. Eligible districts ...