HUFFPOST (U.S. News) - Families' Interest In Their Kids' Education Is Falling Around The Globe
The decline in interest comes as school systems in many high-income countries struggle with plunging test scores.
WASHINGTONPOST (Lauren Lumpkin) - U.S. students’ scores on international test reach lowest point in 2 decades
Students around the globe earned among the lowest average scores ever in science, reading and mathematics on the Program for International Student Assessment.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Tennessee state lawmakers want to fund Dolly Parton reading initiative at 100%
Imagination Library provides free books to children from birth to age 5.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Whitmer Woes: Michigan test scores fall to new lows despite increased spending
Test found 61.8% of all third-graders scored below proficient on the state’s English language arts test.
WASHINGTONPOST (Kyle Melnick) - At 98, he took on a summer reading challenge. He plans to do it again at 99.
As Abner Gaston Jr. nears the century mark, his son said, going to the library helps him get out of the house and meet other people.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - Jacob meets a family enrolled in Dolly Parton's free Imagination Library
Meet Ashley and Sage, a family enrolled in Dolly Parton's free Imagination Library. Dolly started the library in 1995 as a tribute to her father, who never learned how to read or write. Today, the Imagination Library sends more than 3 million free books to children around the world every month—including Sage.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - ‘Book Lady’: Dolly Parton’s commitment to literacy lives on
Dolly Parton knew the power of imagination better than anyone else; it took a whole lot of it to manifest her diamond-dusted dreams. It’s why she founded the Imagination Library – a global nonprofit that delivers free books to children each month. Dolly hoped to inspire a love for reading in children like Sage, whose mother Ashley says each book brought a “special moment” for their whole family.
YOUTUBE (Newsmax) - Larry Elder: Lack of literacy leads to crime, poverty | Ed Henry The Big Take
Larry Elder speaks about the lack of literacy in America and how it leads to crime and poverty on Friday's "Ed Henry The Big Take."
THEFEDERALIST (Breccan F. Thies) - Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Continues Legacy Of Literacy
'The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.'
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Steven Tucker) - What’s the Point of Reading? Just Reading.
Great works of literature are not self-help books. The post What’s the Point of Reading? Just Reading. appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag What’s the Point of Reading? Just Reading. Great works of literature are not self-help books. TakiMag Credit: Reinhold Leitner When, as a young man, I applied to be an English teacher, I recall being asked during interviews why it was so vital to interest my (hypothetical) charges in literature. I felt obliged to respond with what I intuited were the expected answers: “To teach them human empathy via the medium of prose,” or some such pablum. But did I really believe this? Personally, the only reason I have ever read books is because I enjoy reading books. De gustibus non disputandum est; matters…Open