{"id":3280,"date":"2021-09-09T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minibiblioplus.org\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:32:55","slug":"closing-canadas-literacy-gap-in-a-pandemic-montreal-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/en\/2021\/09\/09\/closing-canadas-literacy-gap-in-a-pandemic-montreal-gazette\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Canada’s literacy gap in a pandemic, Montreal Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our literacy challenge \u2014 particularly the importance of early learning initiatives \u2014 should be a national priority, write Celine Cooper and Asha Dixit of the Fraser-Hickson Institute, Montreal Gazette.<\/span><\/h4>\n
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“Research suggests the COVID crisis has not only increased inequities in literacy rates but will lead to deficits in student learning.\u00a0 Closing the literacy gap is both a vital pandemic challenge and a generational opportunity.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In recognition of International Literacy Day this week, we share this piece by the President of our Board of Governors, Celine Cooper and our ED Asha Dixit<\/span>, on why all federal leaders should make literacy promotion, especially early learning initiatives, a national priority.<\/div>\n
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PHOTO BY DAVE SIDAWAY<\/span>\u00a0\/Montreal Gazette<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n
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Our literacy challenge \u2014 particularly the importance of early learning initiatives \u2014 should be a national priority, write Celine Cooper and Asha Dixit of the Fraser-Hickson Institute, Montreal Gazette. “Research suggests the COVID crisis has not only increased inequities in literacy rates but will lead to deficits in student learning.\u00a0 Closing the literacy gap is both a vital pandemic challenge and a generational opportunity.” In recognition of International Literacy Day this week, we share this piece by the President of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minibiblioplus.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}