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Holly Korbey

Nashville

Journalist at Freelance

Contributor at Edutopia

Education journalist, author of BUILDING BETTER CITIZENS. Subscribe to The Bell Ringer, get smart about the science of learning: https://t.co/TW2VPLplk8

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  • 2 weeks ago | postnewsgroup.com | Holly Korbey

    By Holly Korbey, Hechinger ReportThis story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. ATLANTA — Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and columns of 10. Their assignment was to pick a numbered tile and figure out where it should go on the board.

  • 2 weeks ago | theinnercitynews.com | Holly Korbey

    By Holly Korbey, Hechinger ReportThis story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. ATLANTA — Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and columns of 10. Their assignment was to pick a numbered tile and figure out where it should go on the board.

  • 3 weeks ago | tes.com | Holly Korbey

    When Rhode Island’s Right to Read Act was passed in the US in 2019, Kari Kurto was hired to help implement the law, which was supposed to begin training teachers in structured literacy and the science of reading. Kurto, who is the national science-of-reading project director at The Reading League, an advocacy non-profit, felt like things were finally beginning to change.

  • 1 month ago | hollykorbey.substack.com | Holly Korbey

    * Got tips or ideas? Want to work with me? Get in touch: [email protected]. Big news, Bell Ringers: It’s time for summer school! But not *that* kind of summer school. We’re going to have some fun. Read on to find out how to sign up. But first, more on reading whole books.

  • Mar 26, 2025 | tes.com | Holly Korbey

    While there’s no official way to measure it, scripted curricula seem to be on the rise in US schools. More elementary schools are using structured, scripted lessons found in literacy curricula such as the University of Florida Literacy Institute Foundations owing to their positive research results in teaching pupils to read.

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