Voters have an opportunity this year to put federal candidates on notice that its time to place politics aside and fund a reading program that […]
Christian Braunlich
Chris Braunlich is Co-President and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, Virginia’s non-partisan public policy foundation. He was appointed by Governor Bob McDonnell to the Virginia State Board of Education, where his colleagues elected him president of the Board.
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Virginia has one of the highest rates of high school students taking advanced high school courses, and doing well on the exams. But are those […]
The “Reading First” program has led to dramatic gains among students in high-poverty schools. Yet Congress is on the verge of cutting its funding by […]
The Harry Potter books opened up the world of reading to a generation of younger children. Potter succeeded where parents and teachers had failed, but […]