![]() ![]() This national reading event takes place each year as a way to remember Dr. Start the celebration early by pledging to become a volunteer reader, tutor or mentor, and on March 2nd join thousands of others for the National Education Association’s Read Across America. Could there be a better day to celebrate the joys of childhood reading? And can you think of a better way to celebrate than to read to a child on that day? Unless we care a whole awful lot and tackle the root causes of kids not graduating - like young children who never learn to read well or who have no one to mentor them - nothing is going to get better, it's not. the unacceptably high rate of high school dropouts. Although we don't use those words, here at United Way Worldwide we've issued a call to action to help tackle a serious issue in the U.S. This powerful statement is a call to action as relevant today as it was when The Lorax was published more than forty years ago. "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. ![]()
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