The Iowa Department of Education spent $3.5 million to give every 1st grader in the state book packs they can take home and ...
“The secret sauce here seems to be they have a good program, but they also have all of the support structures in place to ...
Almost 38,000 Iowa first grade students are ... Additionally, kindergarten and second grade students who attended a "department-funded high-quality summer reading program or a Learning Beyond ...
The books in the book packs are part of the curriculum based on the science of reading which ... to learn to read.