Rising to a Grand Challenge: Childhood Literacy

Reading scores in Maryland are moving in the opposite direction. Despite being the nation’s fourth-most educated state and among its wealthiest, Maryland now ranks four points below the national average with over half of its schoolchildren not reading at grade level. Now, a team of researchers and practitioners from Morgan State University and the University of Maryland want to foster literacy across the state for generations to come with the help of a three-year, $3 million Grand Challenges Institutional Grant. The Maryland Initiative for Literacy and Equity (MILE) will harness the building blocks of language and literacy acquisition.

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