THE IMPACT OF LITERACY
The impact of literacy goes well beyond the classroom. To ensure we are making a profound difference through our work, we root our principles in research, statistics, and an overall understanding of local school environments.
The impact of literacy goes well beyond the classroom. To ensure we are making a profound difference through our work, we root our principles in research, statistics, and an overall understanding of local school environments.
In order to best support our community, we turn to the numbers. The following statistics illustrate the need for literacy support.
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of Michigan’s third-graders are proficient in reading.
Crain’s Detroit,
Jan 7, 2019
of third-graders in Detroit Public Schools Community District were proficient.
Crain’s Detroit,
Jan 7, 2019
of test scores were worse in 2017 for low-income children of color.
Crain’s Detroit,
Jan 7, 2019
Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined . . . These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.
