A recent letter addressed to top congressional officials recognized SERVE’s early literacy work in the Mississippi Delta region. The letter was drafted by the National Board of Education Sciences, the board of directors for the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES). IES funds the Regional Educational Laboratory Program’s 10 regional labs, one of which is housed at SERVE. In the letter, SERVE’s literacy work was noted for finding that an easy-to-replicate language development program produced a sizable gain in children’s vocabulary and was cited as the kind of exemplary research that might improve early learning outcomes for millions of America’s children.
Read the Letter to Senator Tom Harkin and Senator Michael Enzi