Kentucky’s work in adolescent literacy cited in new IES report

Five States' Efforts to Improve Adolescent Literacy

April 7, 2009

Kentucky’s work in adolescent literacy is cited in a recent report released by the Regional Educational Labs Northeast and Islands.  This report, titled Five States' Efforts to Improve Adolescent Literacy (April 2009) and funded by the US Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), describes efforts by Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, to improve adolescent literacy.

Highlighting common challenges and lessons, the report examines how each state has made progress with five strategies to support their adolescent literacy policies and procedures.  These strategies include:

• The engagement of key stakeholders to make adolescent literacy a priority;
• Setting rigorous state literacy goals and standards;
• Aligning resources to support adolescent literacy goals;
• Building educator capacity to support adolescent literacy goals; and
• Using data to measure progress, make decisions, and provide oversight.

Both the full report and a summary can be found here.  (NOTE: Information about Kentucky's Striving Readers project, and CTL's role in this project, can be found on pages 9, 10 and 11 of the full report.)

Also see other articles about Kentucky's Striving Readers project:

• Federal Striving Readers Adolescent Literacy Work Helps Kentucky Teachers Address Student Skills
• Striving Readers Update: Schools Try New Approach to Boost Student Literacy
• CTL a Partner in $17+ Million Federal Striving Readers Grant
• $30 Million in Striving Readers Grants Awarded to Help Struggling Readers:
  First grants to support president's Striving Readers program (ED.gov; March 22, 2006)