Generating insights to improve literacy achievement

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Upswing Labs conducts research & works with schools, districts, & states to raise literacy achievement. We distill lessons for you to develop deeper readers, students who can evaluate arguments, reason inferentially, understand others’ perspectives, and stay immersed in great stories.

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This report will help you:

Get clear on the destination where your district should be headed with literacy achievement.

Recent research from Georgetown University offers one evidence-informed marker.

Set annual growth targets that are ambitious but realistic

Use a five-level framework to understand where your current performance sits and how far you must travel to reach the next level. If your district’s performance is Good, you can see how far it must go to be Great.

Learn from steadily improving districts, especially those starting from a similar place.

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