Reading proficiently by third grade is an essential step in keeping students on track to graduate high school and move on successfully to college or the workforce. Additionally, reading is the only subject for which a student can be retained. To ensure new teachers are prepared to guide students to
Happy birthday, Head Start! Having begun its very first session in the summer of 1965, Head Start is celebrating fifty years of serving some of our nation’s most vulnerable children. The program has been a positive force for young children through the provision of early care and education – serving more than
Dear Friends and Colleagues. What a ride. For this Kansas Citian, 2014 will be remembered for the Royals improbable, yet fantastic, run up to the last out of the last inning of the last game of the World Series. For all of us, it will be remembered for some of
