Notes the reading problems and reading demands of modern society; provides a four-step plan for community reading programs. (Author/RB)

Described are the compensatory programs in some of the inner city schools in Kansas City, Missouri. The efforts included reading programs, after-school recreational activities and study centers, cultural enrichment, community and parent involvement, teacher seminars, and speech improvement. (NH)

Profiles efforts in the five urban schools in the Boston (Massachusetts) Whole Village Project. Each school identified its own most urgent need, and then mobilized school, parent, and community resources to address the problem through cooperation. Programs include emphases on family planning, home reading, cultural awareness, and overall parent…

The Youth Services Director of the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, NC, has involved the community in encouraging children to read with summer reading programs, story-telling festivals, author and illustrator visits to schools, family reading programs for babies through kindergartners, and a year-round middle school reading…

Nine public schools in New Jersey, eight of which are in urban areas, are separately described as samples of schools with a high level of student achievement in the basic skills, and with demographic characteristics that are similar to those of schools with serious achievement problems. Eight elementary schools and one high school are included in…