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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Schools Matter: We need “Room to Read” in the United States

Schools Matter: We need “Room to Read” in the United States:

We need “Room to Read” in the United States

Sent to the New York Times, November 6, 2011

We complain about stagnant reading achievement in the US (the recent NAEP scores), but fail to do the obvious: Support libraries.

Across the US, states are cutting library funding, even though research consistently shows that increased access to books results more reading and more reading results in better reading, writing, vocabulary and