University of Alabama Lands $9.9M Grant to Help Rural Readers Who Keep Falling Behind
A $9.9 million federal grant is about to change how dozens of rural Alabama schools handle their most stubborn reading struggles. The University of Alabama is launching Project LIFT, a five-year effort that will train teachers in 75 primarily rural elementary schools to use an intensive literacy intervention called Friends on the Block, aimed at young students who keep falling behind even after getting the standard instruction and interventions available at school.
