Southeast Colorado Springs

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (389+ words) Former Carson City Kindergarten Teacher Alyssa Herrera recently returned to Fremont Elementary to share copies of her children’s book, “One Inch at a Time.” The visit was part of Herrera’s “100 Classrooms, One Inch at a Time” campaign, which aims to…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1264+ words) RICHMOND, Va. — When Justice Pinkston came home from J.B. Fisher Elementary School with five free books, her parents had questions. Were they really free? All five of them? Could she really choose whichever books she wanted? “I was like, are…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (207+ words) EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14/CBS4) — The El Paso Independent School District celebrated the opening of a new family resource hub that aims to connect families with basic needs and support services across the district’s Franklin Feeder Pattern. On Thursday, district leaders, staff,…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (493+ words) The Pizza Hut Foundation, in partnership with the Pizza Hut Book It! reading program, has awarded a $10,000 Slice of Literacy Grant to the Brownwood Community Library Association. The Pizza Hut Foundation has also awarded a $10,000 Slice of Literacy Grant to…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (252+ words) Four Johannesburg teenagers are taking the city's literacy crisis into their own hands. Jenovic Lumu, Jesse Lang, Navmith Vandanapu, and Nikolas Roos founded Next Chapter Jozi, a completely student-run initiative aimed at closing the resource gap between well-funded and under-resourced…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (452+ words) Nearly half of California’s fourth-graders read below the basic level, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. At that level, a child is unlikely to figure out the meaning of a familiar word from the surrounding phrase. Children get…...

5+ day, 24+ min ago   (497+ words) CLEVELAND — As we highlight News 5’s annual "If You Give a Child a Book" campaign, in partnership with the Scripps Howard Fund, our team is also celebrating other community groups championing childhood literacy, including the Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank and…...

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5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (107+ words) Arsenal, UIHC plan for new centers to meet growing childcare demand Quad Cities Business Journal Arsenal, UIHC plan for new centers to meet growing childcare demand This is a rendering of a new Child Development Center planned to expand childcare…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (625+ words) FARMINGTON HILLS — Mariam Dunkan, 16, of Farmington Hills, has been a Girl Scout for more than 11 years. A student in Farmington Public Schools, which also serves part of West Bloomfield, she won the Gold Award for her project, “Two Girls, One…...