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UMSL receives $5.1 million grant to promote evidence-based literacy strategies in Missouri schools and area career centers

UMSL’s full-time literacy team will continue its work to provide professional development and digital literacy tools to educators.

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UMSL receives $5.1 million grant to promote evidence-based literacy strategies in Missouri schools and area career centers

UMSL’s full-time literacy team

Dec 17, 2024

The University of Missouri–St. Louis is continuing to support literacy education in the St. Louis region with another substantial award from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Co-principal investigators in the College of Education – Shea Kerkhoff, Katie O’Daniels and Nancy Singer – have secured $5.1 million from DESE to continue promoting evidence-based literacy strategies in Missouri schools and to continue creating literacy resources available online.

The funds are part of a larger initiative by the U.S. Department of Education, which awarded 23 state and federal district education organizations sizable grants for its 2024 Comprehensive Literacy State Development program. In total, DESE could potentially receive up to $49 million from the U.S. Department of Education to be distributed statewide over a period of five years.