Less than 18% of Black children and less than 21% of Hispanic children read proficiently – and we reject the commonly accepted implications that this national failure is the onus of any child, family, or teacher. This crisis – like all societal inequities – impacts our Black, Brown, poor and multilingual children the most. The American literacy crisis affects all children across every demographic. In America today, literacy is a necessity to unlock life’s potential, and yet, less than 35% of children can read proficiently. Who is taught to read – and who is forbidden from learning to read? Who is granted access and who is denied? Since the advent of the written word, which created the need for reading, literacy has been wielded as a tool of power and one of oppression. By Ryan Lee-James, PhD, Director of the Rollins Center for Language & Literacy and Laura Bollman, Director of Operations, the Rollins Center.
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