The new work-study program allows CCAC students chance to become a mentor for third graders at King Elementary. By: Neil Strebig   When America Reads was launched in 1996 the goal was to improve literacy rates among elementary school students. At the time nearly 40 percent of third-grade students we...

RIF Pittsburgh uses a variety of programs to help battle literacy rates in poverty stricken areas By: Neil Strebig Alison McGee recalls a story from one of RIF Pittsburgh’s “Everybody Wins” events, where she met a self-assured third grader at King Elementary. The student was in her words “too cool f...