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Reading Together
California Campuses and Communities
Connect Through America Reads

In a crisis of such proportions, we need a response of equal magnitude. And we may well have found it in America Reads.

Robert A. Corrigan
President
San Francisco State University

 

Reading Together is a report written with support of the James Irvine Foundation describing research findings from a survey of America Reads programs in California conducted during the Summer of 1999 by the America Reads/Counts Challenge office housed at San Francisco State University.

Reading Together: California Camuses and Communities Connect Through America Reads

The findings show that California institutions gave over 1.6 million hours of reading help to children over three semesters. Highlights from the report include:
Tutors increased significantly over the three semester period

graph1.jpg (15085 bytes)		 The number of children tutored rose by 127% during the three semester period


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For more information or to request a copy of this report, contact:

 

Dr. Marsha Adler
Director, America Reads/Counts Challenge
Office of the President
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 338-6879
Email: mnadler@sfsu.edu		 Amy M. Skonieczny
Research Assistant, America Reads/Counts Challenge
Office of the President
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 338-6880
Email: amysko@sfsu.edu

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