NEA Kicks Off Read Across America Day

by Meredith Barnett The National Education Association launched its annual Read Across America campaign on Wednesday with a star-studded celebration of reading at the Library of Congress. A proclamation by President Obama declared today Read Across America Day, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel told the event’s crowd of students decked in “Cat in the Hat” stovepipe hats. [...]

NEA Leaders Join Parenting Mag, Target in Literacy Effort

By Ramona Parks NEA leaders joined Parenting magazine and Target this month for Read.Connect.Grow, a special series celebrating childhood literacy and fostering a life-long love of reading in children. NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen, Secretary-Treasurer Becky Pringle and Executive Committee member Christy Levings made stops in Washington, D.C., St. Paul, Minn., and New York to [...]

U.S. Soccer Players Score Big for Public School Students

By Collin Berglund The U.S. team may be out of World Cup contention, but members of Major League Soccer teams from around the country are beloved no less by schoolchildren from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. Why? Because the athletes are better known to the kids for participating in NEA’s Read Across America program [...]

First Lady Kicks Off NEA’s Read Across America

By Amy Buffenbarger March 2, 2010 — Nearly 300 young students from Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., gathered today at the Library of Congress to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday and Read Across America Day with First Lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. After singing a rock-n-roll version of the alphabet and [...]

NEA’s Read Across America Kicks Off Tomorrow

By Amy Buffenbarger Imagine 45 million students sporting red and white stovepipe hats reading with educators, principals, parents, grandparents, athletes, meteorologists, local celebrities and lawmakers. That’s the scene this week in communities across the country as they celebrate Read Across America. NEA’s Read Across America—sponsored along with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P., and more than 50 [...]