A great picture of a visiting dad reading to his 7 year old daughter this past weekend at the Start with a Story Booth at Glenn Dyer Jail.
“Preventing Violence By Teaching Literacy”
from Good Magazine, May 18, 2010 How one tragedy sparked a literacy movement. The proverbial middle of the night phone call. It’s a benign cliché, the stuff you read about in stories—until it’s your phone that rings at 4 a.m. My family’s middle-of-the-night call came on May 6, 1995. It was the police, calling to … Continue reading
Study: Kids who aren’t reading well by 4th grade are more likely to end up in poverty
from Education Week, May 18, 2010 By Debra Viadero Eighty-five percent of poor 4th graders in predominantly low-income schools are failing to reach “proficient” levels in reading on federal tests, according to a new study by a national foundation that is gearing up to lead a 10-year effort to raise 3rd graders’ reading proficiency. “The … Continue reading
2010 Summer Reading Game is COMING!!!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The 2010 Summer Reading starts June 7, and we need your help! Children who visit at Santa Rita and Glenn Dyer Jails this summer will have an opportunity to participate in the summertime fave. More information to come…
Marian Wright Edelman – “The Playground Jail”
from The Children’s Defense Fund – Childwatch Column by Marian Wright Edelman Adults often start conversations with children by asking them what they want to be when they grow up. We tell them to dream big, and encourage them by giving them pretend doctor’s kits, fancy dress-up clothes, and other toys that let them imitate … Continue reading
Critical Action Alert: Public & School Libraries Need Our Help
From the California Library Association March 9, 2010 Please call your congressperson’s Washington office today and ask him/her to sign onto two letters circulating around Congress. The first letter your member needs to sign urges the Appropriations Committee to appropriate $100 million to Improving Literacy Through Schools (ILTS) in FY2011. President Obama has … Continue reading
“The Early Literacy Crisis”
A Mom Congress Special Report Too few books and too little time are adding up to a disaster for some of the nation’s youngest learners. By Lisa Moran, Parenting The Vanda Early Learning Center in Lubbock, TX, sits between two cotton fields, with a bright-blue sign out front and a globe painted on the sidewalk. … Continue reading
“Start with a Story” wins ALA / Coretta Scott King Book Donation Award
We are pleased to announce that the Alameda County “Start with a Story” Project has been selected as one of three institutions in the country to receive the Coretta Scott King Book Donation Grant. The Coretta Scott King Review Books Donation Grant was created to help build collections and bring books into the lives of children … Continue reading
Ideas for Change in America – VOTE NOW
Help put the importance of reading to children on a national stage where it belongs by voting for “Launch a National “Read To Kids” Campaign” on Ideas for Change in America @change.org Launch a National “Read To Kids” Campaign In the U.S. today, a stark disparity exists between the reading abilities of low-income and higher-income … Continue reading
Why literacy is at the heart of the problems that plague our lowest-performing public schools
The ABCs of Struggling Schools – from good.is Michael Salmonowicz on January 25, 2010 at 6:00 am PST Imagine if you went to your doctor’s office with a heavy cough, and upon examining you the doctor said, “Well, the problem seems to be that you have a cough.” It’s likely that you would be unsatisfied … Continue reading
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