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Episode: E33: Solving the Reading Crisis in America with Ignite! Reading’s Jessica Sliwerski
Description: This episode, Ignite! Reading’s Co-founder and CEO, Jessica Sliwerski, talks about the illiteracy crisis in America, how her organization is giving children the right to read, and the ways to close the equity gap in early literacy instruction for children in poverty.Jessica Sliwerski is the Founder & CEO of Ignite! Reading, a virtual high-dosage foundational reading skills intervention literacy program that’s partnering with schools in six states with a goal of serving 50,000 students in five years. To reimagine how students are taught to read in school, Jessica launc...