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Mission
Reading Partners’ mission is to foster literacy and a lifelong love of learning by empowering communities to provide the individualized attention that struggling young readers need.
According to the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress, 90% of fourth-graders in California?s low-income communities could not read at grade level. 65% lacked even basic reading skills.
Without intervention, fully half of these children will not graduate from high school. Natiowide research demonstrates they cyclical nature of poverty and illiteracy. Children whose parents are functionally illiterate are twice as likely as their peers to be functionally illiterate themselves. By the time children they are nine years old, these children are already 3 grade levels behind their more affluent peers.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
San Francisco Bay Area