Data shows there’s a huge learning gap for children from underserved communities.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, by the time a child reaches three years of age, there’s a 30 million word gap between children from the wealthiest and poorest of families.
On Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Joli Cooper, the founding executive director of GreenLight Fund Atlanta, and Julius Cave, a veteran educator and the program manager for the Atlanta Leading Men Fellowship program, talked with program host Rose Scott about why many believe there’s a direct correlation between the low literacy rate and the incarceration rate.
The guest further talked discussed the focus and the application process for The Literacy Lab’s Leading Men Fellowship (LMF), a multi-generational literacy intervention program.
The program places Black men tutors in Pre-K classrooms to boost students’ literacy skills.
