National Ambassador Walter Dean Myers Vows to Close The Reading Gap

June 04, 2012

Myers was the keynote speaker at SLJ's 2012 Day of Dialog at BEA.

Says Meyers, "I'm wondering where the next generation of readers is going to come from...What's going on in schools is a reflection of what's going on in society. There's a gap. There are huge pockets of language poverty."

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