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Tag: literacy

  • Library Matters / Libraries Matter: #WeNeedDiverseBooks

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    jgilber2

    Think back to the books you loved as a kid, the ones you loved to read (or have read to you) over and over again. Now ask yourself how many featured brown or black characters as the main character? How many portrayed main characters who were differently-abled? Or who had single parents? Or LGBT parents?…

  • Le Clezio on Literacy

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    fister

    Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio’s Nobel address is now available on the Nobel Prize website. It is a stirring tribute to writing and bearing witness, and ends with a plea for making stories available to all as a human right. Literacy and the struggle against hunger are connected, closely interdependent. One cannot succeed without the other.…