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Tag: Reading + Literacy

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Reading Specialist Teacher Pipeline

September 19, 2025September 18, 2025 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Take a look at the pipeline for licensed Reading Specialist teachers. We are starting off the school year with charts exploring reading and literacy education issues. Welcome back to #DataVizDay! Massachusetts offers a Reading Specialist Teacher license. Which

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Early Literacy + Teacher Prep – Public Comment

November 21, 2023December 1, 2023 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Interested teacher preparation in the area of reading? DESE is seeking seeking feedback on the revised draft of the Early Literacy Program Approval Criteria through November 27, 2023 December 13, 2023. As part of the Massachusetts Department of

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Reading + Literacy Instruction Recommendations

November 20, 2023December 11, 2025 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Reading and literacy are complex. Educators know the best practices are effective practices. Take a look at an educator-developed set of recommendations for supporting reading and literacy. In Summer 2023, a working group of Massachusetts Teachers Association members

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Dyslexia…er…Early Literacy Screening Regulations Update

September 23, 2022November 21, 2023 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Who knew reading screening would be so popular? BESE approved an amendment to special education regulations to require early literacy screening and identify follow up supports for students. The September Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meeting was

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