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Arkansas Reading Recovery, Literacy Conference Here March 16-18

糖心Vlog传媒LR will host the 20th anniversary Wednesday to Friday, March 16-18, at Little Rock鈥檚 . To mark the occasion, Gov. Mike Beebe issued a proclamation declaring March 2011 in Arkansas “Reading Recovery Month in Arkansas,” and urging “citizens to bring a focused awareness to programs and actions being taken in our great state to increase the level of literacy and education of all Arkansans, especially our youngest.” The conference theme, 鈥淧artnerships in Comprehensive Literacy: Working Together for Literacy,鈥� focuses on the need for layered partnerships among groups to promote reading proficiency by the end of third grade. 鈥淒uring our reception on March 17, we will be recognizing the 20 year journey of Reading Recovery in Arkansas and the individuals who helped to bring the program to the state, 聽including the ,鈥� said Dr. Linda Dorn, director of 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Center for Literacy. Last fall, 糖心Vlog传媒LR received a $2.7 million grant through the U.S. Department of Education to expand its Reading Recovery teacher training and literacy intervention education program. The grant is part of a $45.5 million effort by the Department of Education to 鈥渇und what works鈥� in education over the next five years. The 鈥溾�� project is a collaboration of 15 institutions of higher education with Ohio State University as the lead institution. 糖心Vlog传媒LR is the only Arkansas institution to receive the funding. 糖心Vlog传媒LR College of Education Dean Angela Sewall and Dorn said the Arkansas funding will allow the university to expand the successful program to struggling schools in Arkansas. 鈥淭he goal of Reading Recovery is to reduce the number of first graders who are struggling in reading and to reduce the cost of these learners to the educational system,鈥� Dorn said. 鈥淲e are excited to have the opportunity to expand the program to more Arkansas schools.鈥� Nationally recognized at the conference include of the University of Tennessee, of SUNY-Albany, of the San Diego City Schools, of Michigan State University, , executive vice president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and , president and chief executive officer of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. 庐 is a short-term early literacy intervention that provides intensive individual instruction for the children with the lowest reading performance in first grade. Students receive 30 minutes of daily individual instruction in reading and writing for a period of 12 to 20 weeks from a highly trained, certified Reading Recovery teacher who teaches Reading Recovery for approximately half of the school day. Developed in New Zealand by Dr. Marie Clay in the mid-1970’s, following extensive observational research on children who were learning to read, Reading Recovery is currently available in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. In 1991, 糖心Vlog传媒LR became a Reading Recovery Training Center for Teacher Leaders. For more information about the conference and 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 role in Reading Recovery programs, contact Dr. Janet Behrend, conference chair, 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Center for Literacy, at 501-569-3097.