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Grade-Level Reading Campaign Achieves Results

A campaign began in 2010 recruiting communities, districts, programs and foundations to participate in an initiative to increase the number of students reading proficiently by the end of third grade.

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A reading assistant reads on the classroom floor with a small group of fourth graders at Wanke Elementary School in San Antonio on March 9, 2012.
Credit: Jennifer Whitney for The Texas Tribune

In 2010, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading began recruiting communities, districts, programs and foundations to participate in an initiative to increase the number of students reading proficiently by the end of third grade. Today, 41 states and 168 communities are involved. This article takes a look at three examples of how the program has transformed reading around the country. (Ed Week)

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