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Browse recent media coverage and thought leadership featuring the ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp team. Are you a member of the media? Contact us at media@amplify.com for more information.

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2024

June 25, 2024

Houston Chronicle: “Religion belongs in public ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp. Indoctrination doesn’t. | Editorialâ€

June 24, 2024

Chalkbeat: “Math instruction overhaul: NYC unveils new curriculum mandate for middle and high ¼â½ÐÊÓƵappâ€

June 7, 2024

The 74: “Bible-Infused Curriculum Sparks Texas-Sized Controversy Over Christianity in the Classroomâ€

June 6, 2024

EdNC: “Perspective | Teachers are the heroes of the literacy story in North Carolinaâ€

May 29, 2024

The 74: “Exclusive: Texas Seeks to Inject Bible Stories into Elementary School Reading Programâ€

May 24, 2024

The Dallas Morning News: “How Don Quixote changed a Dallas public school classroomâ€

May 2, 2024

Akron.com: “Tutoring program at Summit Academy Akron Elementary School attracts national interestâ€

April 30, 2024

APM Reports: “‘Science of reading’ movement spells financial trouble for publisher Heinemannâ€

April 25, 2024

Edutopia: “Using Tech Tools to Energize Young Students’ Math Learningâ€

April 4, 2024

EdNC: “State Board hears update on district ESSER spending, literacy data, and Restart ¼â½ÐÊÓƵappâ€

March 22, 2024

Thomas B Fordham Institute: “Five takeaways from Ohio’s baseline survey of elementary reading curriculaâ€

March 15, 2024

The 74: “New Data: Despite K-2 Reading Gains, Students Face a ‘Much Harder Journey’ Aheadâ€

March 5, 2024

The 74: “Case Study: How One Texas School District Is Repurposing Staff Development Time to Embrace the Science of Readingâ€

February 21, 2024

Times Record News: “UPDATED: Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath likes what he sees at local schoolâ€

February 19, 2024

Chalkbeat: “Chicago Public Schools recover from pandemic declines more than other districts, study showsâ€

February 7, 2024

The 74: “Building Oral Language Skills and Equity Through High-Quality Reading Curriculumâ€

January 24, 2024

The Sentinel: “Cumberland Valley board member questions costs of newly approved curriculum pilotsâ€

2023

December 19, 2023

The 74: “Best Education Articles of 2023: Our 23 Most Important Stories About Students, Schools & Learning Recovery â€

December 8, 2023

Education Week: “Aligned Science Curriculum, Better Scores? Research Finds a Connectionâ€

December 6, 2023

WRAL News: “Reading readiness rises in NC’s K-3 classrooms, new data showsâ€

November 27, 2023

The Dallas Morning News: “Dallas’ new lessons aim to keep kids on track, but some worry about limiting teachersâ€

November 2, 2023

Fort Worth Report: “Black ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp in Fort Worth ISD still struggle to read at grade levelâ€

October 31, 2023

Chicago Tribune: “Lake Forest-area ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp take stock of state grades; ‘While we celebrate our successes, we acknowledge that the journey … is ongoing’â€

October 19, 2023

Chalkbeat: “NYC eyes middle and high school literacy overhaul. It’s asking families to weigh in.â€

October 16, 2023

The 74: “As Virginia Rolls Out Ambitious Statewide High-Dosage Tutoring Effort This Week, 3 Keys to Successâ€

October 6, 2023

Language Magazine: “Embracing Bilingual Assessmentâ€

September 18, 2023

Tech & Learning: “Best for Back to School 2023â€

September 18, 2023

Chalkbeat: “Chicago Public Schools hired hundreds of tutors with federal COVID money. Can they keep them?â€

September 7, 2023

EdNC: “Perspective | Union County Public Schools empowers educators, elevates readersâ€

August 14, 2023

Chicago Parent: “Common Core Math: How to Help Your Kidsâ€

August 6, 2023

The News & Observer: “NC sees big increase in reading skills among K-3 ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp. Is the state back on track?â€

August 4, 2023

The 74: “Slow Literacy Gains, Long COVID in Kids: 7 Insights into Pandemic Recovery and Aftermath in U.S. Schoolsâ€

August 3, 2023

EdNC: “State Board of Education: New reading data, parental leave, and a call to support public ¼â½ÐÊÓƵappâ€

July 28, 2023

Houston Public Media: “New literacy curriculum is among the many changes coming to HISDâ€

July 17, 2023

Houston Chronicle: “Mike Miles says HISD ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp will teach the ‘science of reading.’ Here’s what that means.â€

July 11, 2023

The 74: “‘Education’s Long COVID’: New Data Shows Recovery Stalled for Most Studentsâ€

July 6, 2023

Houston Chronicle: “HISD superintendent gives voluntary ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp one last chance to back out of New Education Systemâ€

June 29, 2023

The Report Card: “Larry Berger on Curriculumâ€

June 2, 2023

EdWeek Market Brief:”K-12 Dealmaking: Substitute Teaching Startup Secures $38M; ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp Raises Undisclosed Series Câ€

May 25, 2023

The 74: “Expanding Access to Tutors: Nonprofit Grants $6 Million to 32 Learning Organizations Across 20 States to Help More Studentsâ€

April 21, 2023

The 74: “The ‘Transformation is Real’ as Science of Reading Takes Hold in N.C. Schoolsâ€

April 18, 2023

The 74: “Louisiana District Ravaged by Hurricane & COVID is Bouncing Back with Scienceâ€

April 5, 2023

WFAE: “NC midyear reading data shows gains, but third-grade goals remain elusiveâ€

April 5, 2023

EdNC: “K-3 ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp show growth in literacy skills, mid-year DPI data showâ€

March 24, 2023

The 74: “COVID & School Recovery: Critics Warn Washington Bill Would Reduce Classroom Learning Time By 4 Hours a Weekâ€

March 24, 2023

Edutopia: “Using Collective Leadership to Make a Major Shift in Your Districtâ€

March 15, 2023

K-12 Dive: “California at center of latest push for science-based reading approachesâ€

March 7, 2023

District Administration: “ESSER pressure: How one district intends to spend wisely as deadline loomsâ€

March 3, 2023

The 74: “‘The Other Long COVID’ Affecting Kids: Missed Opportunitiesâ€

March 2, 2023

3 WTKR: “More ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp on track to learn to read in 2022-2023 school year since start of pandemic, researchers sayâ€

March 2, 2023

ABC 7: “Reading skills rebounding for young ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp following pandemic disruptionsâ€

March 1, 2023

K-12 Dive: “By The Numbers: DIBELS testing shows improved reading progress over last two yearsâ€

February 27, 2023

The 74: “Exclusive: Despite K-2 Reading Gains, Results Flat for 3rd Grade ‘COVID Kids’â€

February 27, 2023

Education Week: “Students’ Early Literacy Skills Are Rebounding. See What the Data Showâ€

February 7, 2023

The 74: “Using High-Quality Curriculum Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Still Have Fun Learningâ€

January 13, 2023

NPR: “Can a middle school class help scientists create a cooler place to play?â€

January 6, 2023

News & Record: “After a numbing low, NC ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp now heading in ‘right direction’ in reading, mathâ€

January 5, 2023

CBS17.com: “K-3 ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp in NC make significant strides on literacy exams, DPI saysâ€

2022

December 20, 2022

District Administration: “Literacy Under the Lights: 10 ways to bring the community back togetherâ€

December 14, 2022

The 74: “14 Charts This Year That Helped Us Better Understand Covid’s Impact On Students Teachers and Schoolsâ€

December 14, 2022

The 74: “Learning Loss Is Worse than NAEP Showed. Middle School Math Must Be the Priorityâ€

November 21, 2022

Voicebot.ai: “SoapBox Labs Brings Child-Centered Voice AI to Dyslexia Detection Assessmentâ€

October 24, 2022

Education Week: “Two Decades of Progress, Nearly Gone: National Math, Reading Scores Hit Historic Lowsâ€

October 20, 2022

The 74: “Exclusive Literacy Data: Small Gains Since Last Fall, But No Reading Reboundâ€

August 30, 2022

The 74: “Test English Learners in the Languages They Speak at School and at Homeâ€

August 29, 2022

WTKR TV NC: “News 3 investigates childhood literacy rates, raising money to give books to local kids for new school yearâ€

August 28, 2022

EdNC: “Elementary ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp made growth last year in skills that lead to reading proficiency, new data showâ€

August 18, 2022

SHRM Blog: “The Great Resignation Skipped Us. Here’s why.â€

August 16, 2022

Forbes: “Curious About Knowledge-Building Curricula? Check Out This Websiteâ€

July 20, 2022

District Administration: “Out-of-school STEM learning is much more powerful when it’s inclusiveâ€

July 19, 2022

Chalkbeat: “The state of learning loss: 7 takeaways from the latest dataâ€

June 28, 2022

The Preschool Podcast: “Early literacy strategies that stick with Darryl from Run-DMC and Makeda from Nickelodeon [Podcast]â€

May 24, 2022

Forbes: “States That Want To Boost Literacy Should Keep An Eye On Texasâ€

April 24, 2022

Business Ecosystem Alliance: “Ecosystems in Education–Collaborating to Efficiently Serve the End Userâ€

April 18, 2022

KQED Mind Shift: “Weighing the best strategies for reading interventionâ€

April 15, 2022

Fordham Institute: “Assessing a standards-aligned physical science curriculumâ€

March 23, 2022

The Baltimore Sun: “National test scores show student gains from in-person learning in all but a critical group: new and pre-readers | COMMENTARYâ€

March 15, 2022

NPR: “Two years ago ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp shut down around the world. These are the biggest impactsâ€

March 11, 2022

The Hub – Dallas ISD: “Students at Greiner and Anson Jones Elementary find success in reading and writing with a new programâ€

March 10, 2022

NY Daily News: “Read it and weep: The new reading instruction emergencyâ€

March 10, 2022

WISH TV Indianapolis: “Study shows student performance plummeted during pandemicâ€

March 9, 2022

New York Post: “Young ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp have suffered ‘alarming’ drops in reading skills during pandemicâ€

March 9, 2022

The Daily Caller: “Childhood Literacy Plummeted Following Pandemic Shutdowns, Studies Showâ€

March 8, 2022

The New York Times: “It’s ‘Alarming’: Children Are Severely Behind in Readingâ€

March 7, 2022

Education Next: “The Education Exchange: Pandemic Hurt Younger Students’ Learning Worse, ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp Data Suggestâ€

February 28, 2022

The 74: “Our 12 Best Education Articles in February: Reflections on 700 Days of COVID Chaos, Setting a Bar for Unmasking in Schools, Burying Schools in Record Requests & Moreâ€

February 24, 2022

The Daily Advertiser: “Reading scores improve slightly, but pre-COVID reading levels are ‘the wrong goal’â€

February 24, 2022

Wall Street Journal: “The School Shutdowns and Lost Literacyâ€

February 23, 2022

K-12 Dive: “DIBELS data illustrates pandemic reading setbacksâ€

February 22, 2022

ABC 7 Buffalo: “Children falling behind in readingâ€

February 18, 2022

The Carolina Journal: “Report: Elementary ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp lag in literacy due to pandemicâ€

February 16, 2022

The 74: “‘We Have First-Graders Who Can’t Sing the Alphabet Song’: Pandemic Continues to Push Young Readers Off Track, New Data Showsâ€

February 16, 2022

Education Week: “More Than 1 in 3 Children Who Started School in the Pandemic Need ‘Intensive’ Reading Helpâ€

February 4, 2022

Literary Hub: “EXCLUSIVE: Watch Joshua Bennett Discuss A.R. Ammons’s poem “Cascadilla Fallsâ€

January 26, 2022

The Ross Kaminsky Show: “Susan Lambert and the Literacy Gap”

January 19, 2022

K-12 Dive: “Report: Colorado reading law update boosts quality of literacy curriculum”

2021

December 15, 2021

Chalkbeat: “How Denver plans to address a drop in early elementary reading scores”

December 8, 2021

The SHRM Blog: “What’s the Best Work Perk of All? Contributing to the Social Good”

November 13, 2021

Hechinger Report: ‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind”

October 20, 2021

Hechinger Report: “OPINION: Younger ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp were among those most hurt during the pandemic”

September 2, 2021

EdSurge: “An Edtech User’s Glossary to Speech Recognition and AI in the Classroom”

September, 2021

SIIA Education: “ED TECH SUCCESS STORIES”

August 23, 2021

CNN: “Irish tech firm helps kids’ voices be heard”

August 18, 2021

SoapBox Labs: “Can Speech Recognition Help Children Learn to Read?”

August 12, 2021

FOX Chicago Broadcast Interview: “Pandemic widens literacy gap for ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp”

August 3, 2021

T.H.E Journal: “More Students of Color at Risk in Reading After Pandemic”

July 28, 2021

The 74: “Early Reading Skills See a Rebound From In-Person Learning, But Racial Gaps Have Grown Wider, Tests Show”

July 28, 2021

K-12 Dive: “Reports: Math, reading progress slowed during first full school year of pandemic”

July 20, 2021

EdNC: “The mCLASS reading assessment tool is back in North Carolina classrooms, but it’s going to look different”

July 5, 2021

WBAL: “Baltimore ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp from all socio-economic backgrounds get a chance to ‘¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp’ their learning skills”

June 15, 2021

Language Magazine: “Using Evidence to Overcome Adversity”

May 7, 2021

The Dallas Morning News: “How can a one-minute kindergarten test help teachers tackle the ‘COVID slide’?”

April 20, 2021

Education Week: “How Teachers and Curriculum Will Shape Ed Tech’s Future: A CEO Makes the Case”

March 24, 2021

The Hechinger Report: “OPINION: Children will need summer tutors to make up for pandemic learning loss”

March 23, 2021

Education Week:Most States Fail to Measure Teachers’ Knowledge of the ‘Science of Reading,’ Report Says”

March 17, 2021

Axios: “How online education and tutoring could fight COVID learning loss”

March 16, 2021

USA Today:Students are struggling to read behind masks and screens during COVID-19, but ‘expectations are no different’”

March 16, 2021

The 74: “Schools and COVID, a Year Later: 12 Months After Classrooms Closed, 12 Key Things We’ve Learned About How the Pandemic Disrupted Student Learning”

February 25, 2021

K–12 Dive:Reading gaps widen in mid-year data, especially for K-1 ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp of color”

February 24, 2021

The 74:One Year into Pandemic, Far Fewer Young Students are on Target to Learn How to Read, Tests Show”

February 17, 2021

NBC Los Angeles:Local Students Design Rovers in Mission to Mars Student Challenge”

February 5, 2021

District Administration:To save literacy, focus first on high-quality core instruction”

February 4, 2021

The Hechinger Report: “5 ways ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp hope to fight Covid-19 learning loss”

January 5, 2021

The 74:Science Matters Now More than Ever. The Time to Start Teaching It Is in Elementary School”

2020

December 15, 2020

Education Week:Students’ Reading Losses Could Strain Schools’ Capacity to Help Them Catch Up”

December 9, 2020

Education Post:How to Help Beginning Readers During the Pandemic”

December 3, 2020

American Consortium for Equity in Education:The Importance of Quality Curriculum With Industry Voice”

September 29, 2020

The 74: “Beyond the Scantron: Ed Tech CEO Larry Berger on Why the Pandemic Is No Excuse to Abscond Accountability and ‘Disruptions Are Great Opportunities to Try Something New’”

May 25, 2020

The 74:Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 2: Why Is My Child Doing So Many Worksheets Right Now?”

February 5, 2020

Getting Smart Podcast:Larry Berger on EdTech Past and Future”