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Wed, Oct 4, 2006 -- 9:00 AM
Literacy of the Young
Forum discusses whether or not literacy among young people is on the decline, and what to do about it.
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Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- Belinda Man, 826 Valencia student
- LeVar Burton, host of PBS's "Reading Rainbow" and national chair of PBS KIDS' "Share-A-Story"
- Linda Johnson, executive director of Streetside Stories, a San Francisco-based non-profit literacy program
- Nina Perez, Streetside Stories student
- Nineve Calegari, founding executive director of 826 Valencia, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting middle and high-school aged students with creative and expository writing skills
- Susan Neuman, professor of education at the University of Michigan and former assistant U.S. secretary of education