NCFL - if you care about education, you should know about this
Consider these two facts:
* Children’s reading scores improve dramatically when their parents are involved in helping them learn to read.
* Low family income and a mother’s lack of education are the two biggest risk factors that hamper a child’s early learning and development.
Since reading is a key to learning, does not it make sense to focus on literacy as a family endeavor, helping those families where the adults, particularly the mothers, lack literacy, gain literacy as a means of helping their childen and themselves?
In 1989, Sharon Darling thought so and founded the National Center for Family Literacy, which is celebrating 20
