CU and OSU Professors team for Education

Clemson University and Ohio State University maybe competing in the Orange Bowl, but faculty and staff from the two institutions are working together to help train 3,750 teachers nationwide and bring individual instruction to 90,000 struggling readers. They also will serve an additional 405,000 struggling readers in small groups and classroom settings. Reading Recovery works as a short-term intervention for first-grade students who have difficulty learning to read and write. Clemson’s Reading Recovery Training Center works collaboratively with Ohio State to provide training and professional development to teachers, who work with struggling readers, dramatically reduce the number of first-graders who can’t read and write and lessen the burden on the education system. An Investing in Innovation Fund grant, which pays for teacher tuition, supplies and professional development costs, is funding the program. Clemson trains at least 50 new Reading Recovery teachers during each year of the five-year grant and will continue expanding its use of technology to support teachers in the field.