Data tells us that less than 2% of teachers in the U.S. are African American males. At Grambling State University, the Call Me MiSTER ( Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) program exists to change that statistic.
This school year, Lincoln Parish’s kindergarten through second-grade classrooms will embark on a new foundational skills curriculum to enhance students’ decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) abilities.
All of Louisiana Tech’s summer orientations are done, and now the newest Bulldogs will be arriving on campus next month. During the final orientation session held recently, Orientation Student Leaders perform skits at Presents in Howard Auditorium. The Fall Quarter at Tech begins on Sept. 4.
With everyone abuzz about back to school, conventional thoughts turn to reading, writing and arithmetic. But for one community group, the emphasis is squarely on the top of that list — reading.
