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Reading Partners Inaugural Silicon Valley Celebrity Spelling Bee Pits Business, Philanthropic, and Political Leaders in Spelling Competition PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 21, 2013– Some of Silicon Valley’s best known leaders, visionaries and entrepreneurs will put their minds to the test and help improve early childhood literacy when they compete in the inaugural Reading Partners Silicon [...]

DENVER – The University of Denver Division of Athletics and Recreations has partnered with Reading Partners Colorado to help students K-3 reach grade-level reading standards. The Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has taken on the program as a key initiative with the goal of including every Pioneer team as a part of the effort. “Having [...]

The United Way of Central Maryland will provide nearly $3 million in community grants intended to provide financial stability to families, quality education to children and healthy alternatives to individuals, the organization said this week. In all, 71 nonprofit programs will receive funding to change the lives of impoverished Marylanders. The money is expected to help offset [...]

Students at nearly a dozen Tulsa schools will have new academic support systems in place this fall. The school board approved agreements with two national nonprofit organizations on Monday to increase mentoring in the schools where students need it most. Reading Partners will recruit and train local volunteers to provide literacy-intervention tutoring twice a week at Anderson, [...]

Over the weekend, the New York Times published an Op-Ed by Sean Reardon, a professor of education and sociology at Stanford, titled “No Rich Child Left Behind.” For an aspiring ed-tech blogger like myself, it was a hard piece to miss, mostly because it was retweeted by nearly everyone I follow on Twitter. The post tells a [...]

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is in Baltimore Friday to settle a bet he made with the city’s mayor on the outcome of the Super Bowl game between the 49ers and Ravens in February. Lee agreed on a friendly wager with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake ahead of the big game in New Orleans on Feb. [...]

By Michael Lombardo for The Huffington Post / Source In his budget proposal last week, President Barack Obama suggested quintupling the School Turnaround Corps, a new joint initiative launched this spring by the Department of Education and Corporation for National and Community Service. The School Turnaround Corps (STC) has been the source of some concern on this site [...]

Part of organization’s collective impact movement focused on the building blocks of a quality life – income, health and education – for central Marylanders facing poverty BALTIMORE, MD (April 29, 2013) – With long-term sights set on a community where every family is financially stable, every individual is healthy and every child receives a quality education, [...]

On Friday, April 26, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will welcome Mayor Edwin M. Lee of San Francisco to Charm City as he fulfills the friendly wager made prior to Super Bowl XLVII. As part of the traditional Super Bowl bet, the mayors wagered a day of service in their opponent’s city. According to an April 22 release from [...]

Jovanni Tricerri noticed something disturbing when he moved to California’s rural Butte region last year after spending a decade in international development. Tricerri had made a career out of working in communities across Latin America—helping identify and train young leaders eager to mobilize their neighborhoods around projects like building hospitals and improving inner-city schools. What [...]