Tag: literacy
Books for Keeps (BFK) is a non-profit organization based in Athens, Georgia that works to improve children’s reading achievement by breaking the barriers related to the accessibility and appeal …
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ― Mark Twain It’s probably no surprise to learn that the American bookworm is …
Our fellow bookworm Sarah Jessica Parker has joined forces with ALA, the American Library Association, to bring us Book Club Central, a brand new online resource that specializes in …
Ralph Burns, a 64-year old man from Tennessee, has finally learned to read. “I had a rough life,” says Ralph Burns, who was abandoned as a child and had to drop out …
Kids and teachers are returning to school from holiday break. How will they be spending their time? If Sara Holbrook were in charge, they wouldn’t be practicing for standardized …
It is well known that reading a minimum of twenty minutes a day, even from birth, sets any child up for success. Reading at a young age level leads …
Brian Floriani is on a mission: over the past seven years, he has distributed more than seven million books to children in the Chicago area. And he plans to give …
The holiday season is fast approaching and the spirit of giving is in the air. For many people all over the world who struggle with literacy, there’s no greater …
For most American children, books are easy-to-come-by resources; libraries are in neighborhoods and schools for simple browsing or borrowing, tablets and e-readers are purchased as gifts, and local bookstores are …
The Washington D.C. based Pew Research Center recently released their reading data for the year. Shockingly, only 73 percent of people in the United States attempted to read one, …
For as much *snobbery* as there is surrounding the preference for physical books whose paper pages you can flip through and smell, a Rwandan village shows us how the “e” …