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Design
The Color of Change: Can Colorful Images Help Solve Social Problems?
The partnership between Pantone and design students assigned a color to each of eight social issues.
Education
The Most Literate American Cities Are College Towns
Amazon's ranked its top 20 most well-read cities according to book sales, and college towns are winning.
Education
Is Facebook Turning College Students Into Terrible Writers?
The social media giant encourages students to write only to themselves and to those who are just like them.
Education
Almost Half of Detroit Residents Are Functionally Illiterate
Forty-seven percent of Motor City residents can't fill out a job application or read a newspaper.
Education
Why the Most Literate Cities in America Aren't the Wealthiest
Money can't buy literacy.
Education
America Cares About Buying Guns, Not Educating Kids
America is set to spend 20 percent of our federal budget on defense and a mere 3 percent on education.
Education
It's Time to Take the Black Male Achievement Crisis Seriously
We know the statistics, but what will it take for us to fully commit to implementing the changes needed to solve the crisis?
Education
Open Court is Closed: Real Teaching Makes a Comeback in Los Angeles
The city's school board just dropped its scripted reading program, giving teachers back decision-making powers.
Education
Can Kafka Subway Billboards Boost Literacy in Mexico?
Librerías Gandhi, one of Mexico's largest book sellers, has teamed up with Mexico City's subway authority to inspire passengers to read more.
Education
Preventing Violence By Teaching Literacy
How one tragedy sparked a literacy movement. The proverbial middle of the night phone call. It’s a benign cliché, the stuff you read about in...
Education
Florida Teen Starts 'Giving Library' for Homeless Kids
Miami-area teen Lilli Leight decided to do something about the lack of books for homeless kids in her community.
Education
Teacher's iPad Experiment Shows Possibilities for Classroom Technology
An Ohio English teacher decided to test whether iPads were a worthwhile investment for his school district.
Education
Poverty's Effect on Student Achievement
A commonly accepted milestone in literacy is the threshold between the end of third grade and the beginning of fourth: That's when children...
Education
Boosting Literacy Through America's Littlest Library Branch
The public library in Clinton, New York upcycled a classic British phone booth and turned it into a neighborhood branch.
Education
Poetry Slams Spur Student Literacy in the South Bronx
In the birthplace of hip-hop a local nonprofit is teaching a different kind of rhyming: the fine art of the poetry slam.
Design
Kinkajou Projector Brings Literacy to Mali
Teaching adults to read is a difficult enough task in and of itself, but in rural Mali, teachers also face classrooms without electricity and...
Education
The ABCs of Struggling Schools
Why literacy is at the heart of the problems that plague our lowest-performing public schools. Imagine if you went to your doctor's office with a...
The Community Board
Stories on Shirts: Out of Print Clothing
Todd Lawton and Jeffrey LeBlanc can sum up their new venture, Out of Print, in just seven words: "Books on shirts. Shirts on a mission." Lawton...
