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Libraries, Literacy, and African American Youth : Research and Practice by Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Pauletta Brown Bracy, and Casey H. Rawson, editors is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This important book is a call to action for the library community to address the literacy and life outcome gaps impacting African American youth. It provides strategies that enable school and public librarians to transform their services, programs, and collections to be more responsive to the literacy strengths, experiences, and needs of African American youth. According to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEAP), only 18 percent of African American fourth graders and 17 percent of African American eighth graders performed at or above proficiency in reading in 2013. This book draws on research from various academic fields to explore the issues surrounding African American literacy and to aid in developing culturally responsive school and library programs with the goal of helping to close the achievement gap and improve the quality of life for African American youth. The book merges the work of its three authors along with the findings of other researchers and practitioners, highlighting exemplary programs, such as the award-winning Pearl Bailey Library Program, the Maker Jawn initiative at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Blue Ribbon Mentor Advocate writing inst

Who reads Libraries, Literacy, and African American Youth : Research and Practice?

Author

Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Pauletta Brown Bracy, and Casey H. Rawson, editors

Publisher

Santa Barbara, California: Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781440838729

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Education, Computer Science