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  Target's Early Childhood Reading Grants

  Posted by Susanne R. Bell on April 17, 2014 at 11:37pm in Attendance, School Readiness, and Summer Learning
  Target is currently accepting applications for their Early Childhood Reading Grants and will provide $2,000 for programs that foster a love of reading and encourage young children, preschool through third grade, to read together with their families. Reading grants support programs such as library storytimes and family reading nights. Programs must take place between September 2014 and August 2015. The deadline is April 30, 2014.
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  Bright Spots: Catching chronic absence early in Vernon, Connecticut

  Posted by Susanne R. Bell on April 17, 2014 at 9:53pm in Attendance
  Students form habits — including good school attendance — at an early age. So it was disconcerting for the central Connecticut town of Vernon to discover that 16 percent of its kindergartners were chronically absent. “We knew attendance had an incredible effect on learning,” says Dr. Mary Conway, superintendent of the Vernon Public Schools, which began monitoring this through its Campaign for Grade-Level Reading involvement. Also troubling were data showing that many chronically absent students…
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