{"id":52713,"date":"2015-11-12T15:43:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T04:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=52713"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:23:00","slug":"taylor-swift-partners-with-scholastic-to-donate-25000-books-to-new-york-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/taylor-swift-partners-with-scholastic-to-donate-25000-books-to-new-york-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Partners With Scholastic to Donate 25,000 Books to New York schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may hear that Taylor Swift stays\u00a0out too late, has\u00a0nothing in her brain, or that she\u00a0goes on too many dates and\u00a0can’t make them stay.\u00a0But that’s just what people say.<\/p>\n

What is more important (and a fact) is that she\u00a0will be partnering with Scholastic in donating\u00a025,000 books to New York City-based schools in 2016,\u00a0in support of\u00a0the Open a World of Possible<\/em> initiative.<\/p>\n

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Twenty-five schools will each receive 1,000 new children\u2019s books through the Scholastic Possible Fund as a result of Taylor\u2019s support. As a long-time literacy advocate, Taylor hosted a webcast for classrooms during which she shared how books, reading and writing have influenced her and opened her world.<\/p>\n

Scholastic said in a press release yesterday:<\/p>\n

The importance of increasing access to books in schools was highlighted in the most recent Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report which found that children ages 6\u201317 from lower-income households are more likely to read books for fun in school and far less likely to read books outside of school than their higher-income peers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Further, having a selection of texts for independent reading can be a powerful tool to encourage kids to pick up a book. The same report revealed that nine in ten kids agree their favorite books \u2013 and the ones they are the most likely to finish \u2013 are the ones they pick out themselves.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Big props to both Taylor Swift and Scholastic for supporting such a wonderful endeavour.<\/p>\n

Children’s literacy levels are a growing concern throughout many parts of the US (as they are in Australia), with the correlation between lower income households and poor literacy levels\u00a0simply impossible to shake off.<\/p>\n

You can’t shake that data off.<\/p>\n

Shake it off.<\/p>\n

Oooo-ooooo-oooo…<\/p>\n

Okay, we’ll stop there. But seriously, awesome stuff Tay Tay…<\/p>\n

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You may hear that Taylor Swift stays\u00a0out too late, has\u00a0nothing in her brain, or that she\u00a0goes on too many dates and\u00a0can’t make them stay.\u00a0But that’s just what people say. What is more important (and a fact) is that she\u00a0will be partnering with Scholastic in donating\u00a025,000 books to New York City-based schools in 2016,\u00a0in support of\u00a0the Open a World of Possible initiative. Twenty-five schools will each receive 1,000 new children\u2019s books through the Scholastic Possible Fund as a result of Taylor\u2019s support. As a long-time literacy advocate, Taylor hosted a webcast for classrooms during which she shared how books, reading and writing have influenced her and opened her world. Scholastic said in a press release yesterday: The importance of increasing access to books in schools was highlighted in the most recent Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report which found that children ages 6\u201317 from lower-income households are more likely to read books for fun in school and far less likely to read books outside of school than their higher-income peers. Further, having a selection of texts for independent reading can be a powerful tool to encourage kids to pick up a book. The same report revealed that nine in ten kids…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5160],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55681,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713\/revisions\/55681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}