In September 1998, education leaders from over fifty states and territories convened at the first national Reading Summit in Washington, D.C. More than 550 summit participants, including teachers, superintendents, state policy makers, school board members, parent leaders, principals, state legislators, special education and bilingual coordinators, Title I personnel, early childhood specialists, and child care providers, met to cooperate on a comprehensive national crusade for child literacy based on the best practices from new brain and reading research. A special focus was the National Research Council's (NRC) 1998 report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children. Teams from each state agreed to take actions such as: hosting state reading summits; reforming teacher certification requirements; raising graduation standards at teachers colleges; using the NRC study to train current teachers and principals; offering pre-literacy training to child care providers and more. Further information is available on a new Reading Summit Web site at http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads.

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