Training
“85% of brain development occurs before the age of 5, but only 14% of public education dollars are spent on early childhood education in the United States.”
America's Edge
Rand Corporation and the National Institute for Early Education Research“The United States ranks 24th among 30 developed countries on overall educational achievement for 15-year-olds.”
www.childrensdefense.org
You’ll go far when you read!
Unknown
Reading… one of life’s great gifts.
Unknown
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher
Literacy is at the root of a personâs ability to succeed, and the family is at the heart.
www.famlit.org
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
Select Panel for the Promotion, Child Health
1981“Single mothers make up half of America’s poor. Not convicts. Not junkies. Single mothers.”
YWCA
Lake County“American education, which used to be the envy of the world, is in dire straits.”
www.childrensdefense.org
