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Gates Foundation Funds Handheld Games Promoting Middle School Literacy

2010-03-09 17:25
The New York-based Education Development Center (EDC) has received a grant from the Bill amp; Melinda Gates Foundation supporting the development of handheld games designed to improve reading comprehension among struggling middle school students. The Gates Foundation grant supports the EDC s two-year research project Portable Word Play: Discovering What Handheld Games Can do for Adolescent Reading Comprehension, conducted in collaboration with the game development studio 1st Playable Productions. Researchers at the EDC s Center for Children ...
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