Topic: Literacy

Only 17 percent of Philadelphia fourth graders read at grade level. Let’s tell Harrisburg to pass bipartisan bills that invest in our kids and our future, says a PA literacy leader

The storyteller sings, dances, puppets and laughs with books to help children get excited about — and learn — reading

What Percival Everett’s National Book Award-winning James tells us about the crisis of literacy in Philadelphia.

Evening WURDs host and Citizen contributor James Peterson launches a short story club on his program this Thursday night. Everyone is invited

Only 15 percent of Philadelphia students read at grade level. A new state law has recommended a better way to teach them — but, an education advocate says, more is needed

A weeklong celebration of literacy seeks to empower Philadephians of all ages to find strength, and joy, in literacy.

How to help students in Philadelphia? Give a hand to any of these initiatives, organizations that are already doing the good work to support students, educators and communities

What could get state senators to cross party lines? How about a crisis among children and adult Pennsylvanians who can’t read

This nonprofit brings out the creative writer in school-age students in Philly and beyond. In a city with an abysmal literacy rate, these efforts are paying off.

Attention, Governor Shapiro and Pennsylvania state legislators: Illinois has banned book bans. NJ is thinking about it and PA should too.