University Of Alabama Economic Center Promotes ‘Read Across America’ Day In Black Belt Region
By University of Alabama
The University of Alabama Center for Economic Development (UACED), along with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES), is promoting the National Education Association’s Read Across America Day by providing Dr. Seuss-themed reading kits to 34 schools in 13 counties within the Black Belt region.
Alabama’s Black Belt is a place of low educational achievement, high unemployment and poverty. Literacy skills and language development are two essential economic development tools that increase workforce opportunities available to children later on in life.
Read Across America Day is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community in the nation to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries and community centers join in the celebration of bringing together children, teens and books.
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