{"id":203917,"date":"2026-05-27T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/203917\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:19:08","slug":"iowa-city-firm-is-cracking-the-reading-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/203917\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa City firm is cracking the reading code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">More than 20 years ago, two researchers in different fields decided to tackle a shared question: Why were so many U.S. children lagging behind in reading skills?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Carolyn Brown and Jerry Zimmerman have long tackled the question, first with their shared reading research and support business called Breakthrough to Literacy, then with their partnership with the Iowa Language and Learning Institute, and since 2009, with their\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"426\" height=\"231\" class=\"brxe-image css-filter size-full bricks-lazy-hidden\" alt=\"White CBJ logo\" id=\"brxe-qzklxk\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CBJWHITE.png\" data-type=\"string\" data- \/>Want to Read More?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;margin-bottom: 0px;\">Get immediate, unlimited access to all subscriber content and much more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Learn more in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/corridorbusiness.com\/subscribe\/faq\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subscriber FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unparalleled business coverage of the Iowa City \/ Cedar Rapids corridor.Immediate access to subscriber-only content on our website.26 issues per year delivered digitally, in print or both.Support locally owned and operated journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to read and share this article without a paywall?<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"brxe-d34039\" class=\"brxe-button bricks-button\" href=\"https:\/\/corridorbusiness.com\/article-bypass\/?art_id=133593&amp;post_url=https:\/\/corridorbusiness.com\/iowa-city-firm-is-cracking-the-reading-code\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to purchase a paywall bypass link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 20 years ago, two researchers in different fields decided to tackle a shared question: Why were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[89907,736,128,130,129,1164,17831],"class_list":["post-203917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-foundations-in-learning","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-research","tag-showcase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}