Improving early literacy in PreK-3: Lessons learned

August 29, 2016

What should education leaders, policymakers and philanthropists know about improving early literacy in PreK-3? , director of the 爆走黑料 爆走黑料's National P-3 Center offers four key takeaways in a new blog post for the McKnight Foundation.

Kauerz, a longtime member of the McKnight Foundation鈥檚 Education & Learning National Advisory Committee, offers four key takeaways:

  1. Collaboration requires intentionality and explicit strategies.
  2. Stability matters.
  3. The 鈥淧athway鈥 for children needs to be wider and stabilized.
  4. Improving young children鈥檚 success requires strategic perseverance throughout the entire system.

Kauerz's column was published in conjunction with this week's release of the report a case study commissioned by The McKnight Foundation and published by SRI International that chronicles efforts to improve PreK-3rd literacy proficiency in six schools across the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area.

in its entirety on the McKnight Foundation blog.

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Kristie Kauerz, Research Assistant Professor
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