Strategies boost literacy of students in content-area classes
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Note: The Strategic Literacy Initiative team atWestEd has recently been awarded funding through the Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) from the U.S. Department of Education to scale up their content-specific literacy professional development in four states to reach an estimated 300 schools, 2,800 teachers, 250 teacher leaders, and 400,000 students.
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