We Act Radio rejoins the air waves 9/14 with the premiere broadcast of We Luv Books Radio. Maya Gonzalez, author, educator, and co-founder of Reflection Press. Author of When a Bully is President, to be highlighted at 9/23 ARTivisim Afternoon bookstore event. Brother Yao, poet, Bowie State University professor, and co-founder of the former KaribuContinue reading “Radio Premiere: Maya Gonzalez, Brother Yao, & Sing-Talk-Read”
Category Archives: Book Desert
Most Literate, Most Challenged
From We Act Radio’s Education Town Hall: Washington has been declared the “most literate” city in the U.S. since 2010. Meanwhile, DC also has areas with illiteracy rates close to 50%, and a “book desert” where 830 children would need to share one age-appropriate book for sale. Hear from Dr. John W. Miller, author ofContinue reading “Most Literate, Most Challenged”
Book Deserts and Their Effects
Book deserts “may seriously constrain young children’s opportunities to come to school ready to learn,” says professor Susan B. Neuman, lead author of a study which included several neighborhoods in the District. [(USC Emeritus Professor) Steven] Kashen reports that book access and poverty are related but separate. On the one hand, “Children who liveContinue reading “Book Deserts and Their Effects”
Nothing to Read on Their Own
“Children who live in poverty have fewer books in their home, sometimes none. Fewer books in their neighborhood, fewer bookstores. They go to schools with inferior classroom libraries, school libraries, etc. You can have the best teaching in the world, and it’s not going to help when children are hungry, undernourished, ill, and have nothingContinue reading “Nothing to Read on Their Own”
Research Compendium
Here, for those interested, is the full Family and Community Engagement (FACE) 2013 Compendium of Research (Compendium PDF), including the “Access to Books” section shared in “Picture Books and Their Consequences.”
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