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How This Superintendent Overhauled Literacy Instruction

By Elizabeth Heubeck & Lauren Santucci — September 29, 2023 3:16
Two elementary students read together on a bench at UCLA on Jan. 21, 2020 in Los Angeles.

In July of 2021, Robert “Robby” Asberry took over as the new superintendent of Hancock County Schools, a small district in Hawesville, Kentucky. Driven by the negative academic effects of the pandemic on students and his own son’s struggles with reading, Asberry made overhauling the district’s literacy instruction one of his first priorities. Here’s what happened next.

Elizabeth Heubeck is a staff writer for Education Week.
Lauren Santucci was a video producer for Education Week.

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