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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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  • 3 days 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 week 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.

  • 2 months ago | 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.

  • 2 months ago | the74million.org | Holly Korbey

    Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Josie Defreese’s first days as a high school English teacher last year were a little chaotic. Graduating from college just weeks before, Defreese took a job at Beech Grove High School in a diverse Indianapolis suburb, replacing two teachers in a row who had quit. “I had nothing, no resources,” Defreese said.

  • Feb 25, 2025 | youthtoday.org | Holly Korbey

    This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. A flexible understanding of how numbers work is as important to math as phonics is to readingStudents in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense.

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27 May 25

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RT @karenvaites: Would you believe that some of the most widely-used reading curricula in America incorporate no actual books? 🚩🚩🚩 In fact…

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7 May 25

RT @JoanneLeeJacobs: Kids may enjoy molding a volcano and making it "erupt" with Coke and Mentos. But they won't learn about volcanoes. "If…