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Successful ‘Read To Succeed’ Summer Program Goes Virtual

Read to Succeed
Monday, June 22, 2020

Administered by The Fund for School District of Philadelphia, the program's goals of promoting literacy and preventing the phenomenon known as “summer slide” have been expanded to include countering the "COVID slide," this year's loss of school instruction time to the pandemic.

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National Movement for Children’s Literacy Converges on Philadelphia

Thursday, July 19, 2018

More than 700 educators, foundation executives and national leaders in early childhood education will convene July 24-27 in Philadelphia for Grade-Level Reading Week, the nation’s most significant convening focused on getting all children reading on grade level by the time they enter fourth grade.

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Philly parents, don't leave the city when your kids reach school age | Opinion

Friday, March 23, 2018

William Penn Foundation program director for Great Learning Elliot Weinbaum urges parents to visit their neighborhood schools and see the great teaching happening in Philadelphia's public schools before deciding to leave the city in search of something better. 

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