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Since its inception, 331 AmeriCorps Members have served as "literacy specialists" in 40 different community and faith based adult literacy programs in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. [8] [9] Their roles include One-to-one and small group tutoring, recruiting volunteers to serve as tutors, and participating in a training and development ...
Open Books is a nonprofit organization based in Chicago, Illinois, that sells donated books to fund literacy programs for kids. [3] Founded by Stacy Ratner in 2006, Open Books has since started several literacy programs for kids, and has taken part in literacy events in Chicago.
The Truist Foundation has granted $10,000 to support the literacy council’s “Literacy for Life: Building Career Pathways to Economic Mobility.”
North Chicago School District #187 launched high-impact tutoring with Chapter One to accelerate learning for students who had fallen behind in early literacy due to COVID-19 school closures. [15] Early Literacy Interventionists began working virtually with district kindergartners and first graders along with their families at the start of the ...
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Ruth Johnson was born in Chicago on December 16, 1916. She was the daughter of Lillian Johnson and Harry Johnson (1891–1929), a Swedish-American, and owner of a construction conglomerate in Chicago. She was eldest of five children. [2] She attended Thornton Junior College in Harvey, Illinois, where she received a two-year degree.
The City of Los Angeles agreed to pay $30 million to thousands of people affected by gang injunctions. But court records show around half of the money remains unclaimed, and a federal judge ...
Timothy Shanahan is an educator, researcher, and education policy-maker focused on literacy education. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Education, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, and he has held a visiting research appointment at Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.