Minneapolis nonprofit aims to stop summer skills slide with simple solution: free books
Article originally published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune
On the eve of summer vacation, two Minneapolis management consultants will give away 40,000 new books to Minneapolis first- and second-grade students — no strings attached.
They're convinced that free books can be a simple and inexpensive fix to the thorny problem of kids from poor households losing more reading skills over the summer than their middle-class peers.
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