Parents and Students Learn Side by Side in D.C. School

Stephen Voss for Education Week
Education Week
January 24, 2011
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This EdWeek piece highlights a program designed to improve parental involvement and family literacy launched by Toyota 20 years ago.

The Toyota Family Literacy Program began 20 years ago with parents of preschoolers, and it has developed into a K-3 model. It aims to address the needs of the estimated 30 million adults in the United States who have basic or below-basic literacy skills and are caretakers of children from birth to age 8, says Sharon Darling, the founder and president of the National Center for Family Literacy.

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