The YMCA of Metro Atlanta opened an early learning center in Vine City Tuesday, where advocates of children hope to break the pernicious problem of illiteracy. The YMCA’s reading program aims to teach reading and vocabulary to infants through prekindergarten in the type of low-income neighborhood where national data shows 89 percent of black children score below “proficient” in fourth-grade reading skills.
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Column: Unprecedented effort underway to fight low literacy
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on August 18, 2017
Low literacy — whether it’s among youth or adults — hurts the state’s economic potential and is a leading cause of poverty.
Now an unprecedented collaboration is underway in Georgia to address low literacy with a multi-generational approach.
The Georgia Literacy Commission, which held its third public meeting in Tifton on Aug. 14, reflects that collaboration. Georgia’s First Lady Sandra Deal is one of the commission’s co-chairs along with Wendell Dallas of Atlanta Gas Light; Phil Jacobs, a retired AT&T Georgia president; and Teya Ryan of Georgia Public Broadcasting.
