{"id":34975,"date":"2025-11-24T12:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=34975"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:10:58","slug":"what-to-do-when-older-students-struggle-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=34975","title":{"rendered":"What to Do When Older Students Struggle to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/>\n                Efforts to align literacy practices to evidence are sweeping through K-3 classrooms. But what about older students who still struggle with basic reading? Exclusive survey data from the EdWeek Research Center indicates the problem is widespread. Giving these vulnerable students extra help is critical, but many secondary educators don\u2019t have much training in literacy foundations.<\/p>\n<p>Our newest report surveys the landscape of the problem, outlines best practices from research, and profiles one school\u2019s systematic effort to make sure all its middle schoolers can crack the code.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts to align literacy practices to evidence are sweeping through K-3 classrooms. But what about older students who still struggle with basic reading? Exclusive survey data from the EdWeek Research Center indicates the problem is widespread. Giving these vulnerable students extra help is critical, but many secondary educators don\u2019t have much training in literacy foundations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[7984,2563,6734,678],"class_list":{"0":"post-34975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-older","9":"tag-read","10":"tag-struggle","11":"tag-students"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}