The Power of Community: Addressing COVID Slide w/ Adeola Whitney, CEO of Reading Partners
Researchers and education advocates have shared that by the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, many students will be at least half a grade level behind. This statistic only worsens for students of color – particularly Black, Latinx and Indigenous students – and students in low income, rural, and/or public schools.
This “COVID Slide” threatens to exacerbate already-existing educational inequities and keeps marginalized students at a disadvantage. Reading Partners, an early literacy non-profit, aims to mitigate this inequities through one-on-one literacy tutoring to underserved students – a mission that has only been solidified since the onset of the pandemic.
Reading Partners’ CEO Adeola Whitney joins Kesi Felton, founder of Better to Speak, for the first interview of season two of The Podcast. Here, they discuss COVID slide and the power of community and literacy to mitigate its affects.
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Sources and Additional Resources:
When Covid-19 closed schools, Black, Hispanic and poor kids took biggest hit in math, reading
Report: Steeper COVID slide expected in math than reading
Just-in-Time vs. Just-in-Case Scaffolding: How to Foster Productive Perseverance
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