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Check out these publications, videos and graphics produced by the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.
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Letter From the Managing Director
Quarterly update and reflection by CGLR’s founder and leader, Ralph Smith.
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The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Looks Forward (2023)
Brief outlining CGLR’s civic action and advocacy agenda, progress markers and policy priorities for 2023–26.
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CGLR’s What’s Working Xchange: Story Summary (2023)
Community action stories about what GLR communities are doing to improve digital connectivity and/or promote learning-rich environments in the community.
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Learning Loss Recovery Challenge, By the Numbers (2022)
Data snapshot of CGLR’s messaging and mobilization strategy to encourage and support community action to slow, stop and reverse pandemic-precipitated learning loss.
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CGLR By the Numbers (2022)
Brief data snapshot providing current facts and figures about CGLR’s reach and impact.
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What Mobilized Communities Must Do (2020)
Graphic highlighting what CGLR views as must-do actions to ensure early school success for children growing up in economically challenged families.
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CGLR Brochure (2019)
Brochure providing an introduction to CGLR and how it mobilizes communities to ensure early school success for children growing up in economically challenged families.
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Forewords From Recent CGLR Publications (2019)
Compilation of CGLR Managing Director Ralph Smith’s introductory remarks and reflections from Midpoint Snapshots, Toward Bigger Outcomes and Toward Closing the Gap(s).
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Looking Forward 2019–2023: Local Funders Leading! (2019)
Brief describing the essential role that effective philanthropy plays in attaining and realizing the potential of early school success.
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CGLR’s 2017–18 Listening Tour: A History of Listening (2018)
Brief describing the process, content and results of a practice hard-wired into CGLR’s DNA — listening to the people who are doing the work.
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Toward Closing the Gap(s) (2017)
Report describing strategic shifts CGLR made as it entered a second phase in 2017, including highlights from research and data behind the framing along with conjectures about the path forward.
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Midpoint Snapshots (2016)
Report examining CGLR at the midpoint of the decade-long commitment made in 2010, including early outcomes and insights and reflections on a growing body of research.
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Toward Bigger Outcomes: Taking on the Health Determinants of Early School Success (2016)
Report outlining CGLR’s strategy for advancing healthy child development.
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YouTube
Grade-Level Reading Campaign: The Statistics (2015)
Video providing the data-based rationale for addressing early reading proficiency.
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Early Reading Research Confirmed: A Research Update on the Importance of Third-Grade Reading (2013)
Report updating the 2010 Early Warning! Report with new and emerging findings.
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Early Warning: Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters (2010)
Report providing the research rationale and call to action that launched CGLR.