Posted at 2:20 a.m., Thursday, March 29, 2007
$10 million grant awarded to improve reading skills
Advertiser Staff
An initiative to have every third grader in Hawai'i reading at grade level by 2015 received a $10 million boost of support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation yesterday.Hawai'i P-20, more aptly called "Capturing the Momentum – the P-3 Initiative," is a collaboration of local community organizations along with the University of Hawai'i, the Hawai'i Department of Education, and the Good Beginnings Alliance.
"We are enormously grateful to the Kellogg Foundation for supporting the Hawai'i P-20 Initiative's efforts and recognizing our potential to affect change statewide," UH President David McClain said in state released by UH. "Higher education must own and respond to the challenges of early childhood and K-12 education. As the only public higher education system in the state, the University of Hawai'i has a significant responsibility, particularly in the training of early childhood and elementary educators and the alignment of teaching standards that will benefit students throughout Hawai'i."
"Capturing the Momentum" will support the development of high quality, culturally sensitive learning environments in early childhood through grade 3 settings and classrooms. A key component of "Capturing the Momentum" will be to replicate successful community-based and statewide initiatives already in place and provide support for these strategies in other communities.
