Boon Philanthropy

Boon is a nonprofit dedicated to reducing the reading crisis by ensuring teachers are trained in the science of reading, helping learners become strong readers.

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

Sold a Story was the #2 most shared podcast on @ApplePodcasts in 2023. https://t.co/fMk4bnp8nU

[APM Reports @apmreports]

NEW THIS MORNING: Reading Recovery, one of the world’s most widely used reading intervention programs for young children, took a hit to its credibility today following the release of a new study at the American Educational Research Association conference. https://t.co/6Cvbax4jwJ

[Boon Philanthropy @BoonEducates]

@jennifer_hogan_ @literacypodcast @brett_tingley @RightToReadFilm Boon has some solutions. We still talk about the problem, because so many people who can help effect change are not contributing to solutions. Onward and upward! https://t.co/deL17fa6my

[Education-Consumers @EduConsumersFdn]

The poverty limitation on educational success is largely surmountable but change will require schools to recognize their pedagogical shortcomings and adopt practices that are adequate to the problem.

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We’re featured in the latest issue of @BoonEducates's VIM Magazine! Check out their exclusive articles on NoticeAbility’s own Dean Bragonier and Sally Taylor.

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@RightToReadFilm AND: Reading, Writing and Speech Problems in Children: a Presentation of Certain Types of Disorders in the Development of the Language Faculty. By Prof. Samuel Torrey Orton. (Thomas W. Salmon Memorial Lectures.) Pp. 215. (London: Chapman and Hall,
TLtd., 1937.)

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@RightToReadFilm Some history: "Why Reading is Not a Natural Process" by G. Reid Lyon PhD, and The National Reading Panel subgroup report on Teaching Children to Read.

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Boon has solutions. #literacy https://t.co/eAkYitu0yg

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@sortegories We're glad someone "got" it! Thanks!!

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#EndTheNationalReadingCrisis #HelpBoonTrainTeachers

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#EndTheNationalReadingCrisis #HelpBoonTrainTeachers

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Do the math. 80 minutes x 5 days per week, x 9 months of school year, x 3 years = how many hours?

STILL 66% of kids by fourth grade don’t reach grade level reading. How is this OK? Help us, help teachers: https://t.co/XtcEwbfz9I

#EndTheNationalReadingCrisis

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Why - it takes more than phonics. Teachers aren’t trained in the science of reading so those hours are generally unproductive. https://t.co/GcFXx1cuoQ

#EndTheNationalReadingCrisis

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When asked to identify the five essential components of literacy instruction only 55% of K-2 teachers and 78% of postsecondary teachers could identify all five according to The International Literacy Association (ILA) survey of Fall 2019.

Source: EdWeek Survey

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#EndTheNationalReadingCrisis #HelpBoonTrainTeachers

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K-2 teachers reported spending an average of 80 minutes a day on literacy instruction and 31 minutes of that time was devoted specifically to phonics (EdWeek Survey). This falls slightly below the National Reading Panel's daily recommendation!

#EndTheNationalReadingCrisis

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Learn more about Dr. Jeff Howard from Efficacy Institute in this interview. https://t.co/qcJnb9abI9

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British A. Robinson, president and CEO of the Barbara Bush Foundation, said, “America’s low literacy crisis is largely ignored, historically underfunded and woefully under-researched, despite being one of the great solvable problems of our time." #EndTheNationalReadingCrisis

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Nicole Williams in the equity article wrote, “as we fight to make this country authentically just, we must recognize schools are the linchpin for that political and civic process.” This is a tremendous read, thus we are sharing: https://t.co/crfL1n43Y1