Naming Ceremony: Liz Davis Free Library at Washington Teachers Union,
1239 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
April 10 @ 4:30 p.m.
Rain Location: Inside WTU building
Honor the life and legacy: WTU President Liz Davis dedicated to advancing and promoting quality education for all children.
Background
Literacy, among adults and children, in parts of DC are far below national averages, with 74% of children reading below grade-level benchmarks. Research links access to books at home with improved literacy — even when controlling for other factors, such as income. (See, e.g., these reports from We Act Radio’s Education Town Hall.) CMCB Free Library locations bring books to some of the neighborhoods most in need of help in building home libraries.
These locations provide free books for children and adults and offer an opportunity for book-swapping:
Locations:
Ward 8
- MLK and Malcolm X avenues, SE
- Good Hope & Naylor roads, SE
- 1333 Congress Street SE
Ward 7: Marvin Gaye Park, Minn. & Nannie Helen Burroughs
Ward 6: COMING SOON: Penn & 13th, SE — Washington Teachers Union
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