Kelly Butler, Mississippi Miracle (2024)
Newsmakers
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Speech
Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Date Issued: 2024-02-07
Duration: 00:31:09
Subjects: Rotary Club of Baton Rouge | Education | Reading | Literacy
Contributors:
- Butler, Kelly Speaker
Description
This episode of the series “Newsmakers’ features a speech by Kelly Butler before a meeting of the Baton Rouge Rotary Club on February 7, 2024. Butler served as the CEO of the Barksdale Reading Institute in Mississippi until it closed in June 2023. She discusses: the steps Mississippi took to improve their fourth grade reading scores; the importance of treating reading as a science; and the legacy projects of the Barksdale Reading Institute.