As part of Georgia Pre-K Week, a celebration of the state's pre-K program, Georgia resident and former NFL star Malcolm Mitchell joined political leaders and local celebrities in reading to children. Literacy is important to Mitchell, who spoke to GPB's Orlando Montoya in the studio.
Former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has written a children's book about his two cats, continuing to champion for early literacy efforts. "Veto, the Governor's Cat" is a tribute to his late wife, Sandra Deal, who read books to students at more than 1,000 schools across Georgia.
Reports show that since the pandemic, Georgia has seen significant struggles and drops in youth literacy rates. To address this issue, many initiatives have been implemented, one of them being the 2024 Governor's Summit at the Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy.
Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up, he could barely read. That was until a teacher saw his potential.
The Department of Education and the Atlanta-based Rollins Center for Language and Literacy will offer help to primary school teachers getting up to speed on new state reading standards.
Many teens and young adults turn to social media for news. But since the war between Isreal and Hamas broke out, social media sites have been flooded with content, some of it misinformation. A marketing professor at Emory University says media literacy can help.
One of the 30-member Georgia Council on Literacy’s first tasks has been to examine other states that have seen success in boosting literacy, including Mississippi, once a public education laughingstock, where more than a decade of effort has begun yielding major improvements in recent years.
Mounting evidence from around the country shows that students who spent more time learning remotely during the 2020-2021 school year, many of them Black and Latino, lost about half of an academic year of learning. That's twice as much as their peers who studied in person that year.
The Great American Read has started a national conversation about America's favorite books. For the PBS series, you are invited to join in — and vote —...
