The Uprise Books Project

The Uprise Books Project

There are two fundamental problems you need to address when you want to get kids to read. The first is basic access. Kids in poorer families tend to have fewer books in the home, they live in poorly-funded districts with fewer books available in the school and classroom libraries, and they live further away from the public libraries than their more affluent peers. So step one: get ‘em books. But once they have the books, you still need to find a way to get them to actually read the things. And that’s the problem that the Uprise Books Project addresses. It’s no surprise that one of the most sure-fire ways to pique a teen’s interest in just about anything is to tell them they aren’t allowed to do it, and that inherent…Read More

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