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Libraries, Literacy, and African American Youth - Research and Practice (Paperback)
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Libraries, Literacy, and African American Youth - Research and Practice (Paperback)
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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 institute in the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro City Schools, among others. Readers will understand
how these culturally responsive programs put theory and
research-based best practices into local action and see how to
adapt them to meet the needs of their communities.
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