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Family Literacy
Yonkers Partners in Education’s literacy initiatives will provide elementary school-aged children with greater access to books and encourage at-home reading with their parents and caregivers. This will be accomplished through two major programs: YonkersReads! and Family Story Power.
The National Endowment for the Arts study (2007) found that "students who read for fun nearly every day performed better on reading tests than those who reported reading never or hardly at all." The study points to the "failure of schools and colleges to develop a culture of daily reading habits." In addition, an analysis of federal Education Department statistics found that those students who scored lower on all standardized tests lived in homes with fewer than ten books (The New York Times, November 18, 2007). This study points to two pivotal factors in ensuring lifelong literacy: children must have time to read every day and children must have access to books.
YPIE literacy initiatives: