Topic: Literacy

Pennsylvania, Prioritize 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
By Rachael Garnick
Thembi Palmer, Reader
The storyteller sings, dances, puppets and laughs with books to help children get excited about — and learn — reading
By Courtney DuChene
Literacy is Never Neutral
What Percival Everett’s National Book Award-winning James tells us about the crisis of literacy in Philadelphia.
By James Peterson
Evening Stories on WURD
Evening WURDs host and Citizen contributor James Peterson launches a short story club on his program this Thursday night. Everyone is invited
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Teach Reading the Right Way
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
By Laura Boyce
Reading Promise Week
A weeklong celebration of literacy seeks to empower Philadephians of all ages to find strength, and joy, in literacy.
By Erinda Sheno
20+ Philly Education Organizations to Support
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
By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff
Something All Pennsylvanians Can Agree On
What could get state senators to cross party lines? How about a crisis among children and adult Pennsylvanians who can’t read
By Beth Ann Rosica
Meet Philadelphia’s Cosmic Writers
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.
By Courtney DuChene
Ban the Ban, Not the Book
Attention, Governor Shapiro and Pennsylvania state legislators: Illinois has banned book bans. NJ is thinking about it and PA should too.
By Elaine Maimon