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Children at Urban Sprouts Child Development Center read books together to help increase their reading levels.
A St. Louis literacy organization wants to help improve third-grade reading proficiency rates in high-poverty areas and to give children access to reading tools this summer.
Turn the Page STL is teaming up with libraries, institutions and recreational centers to provide access to books, virtual learning, games and other activities to keep children in high-poverty areas reading during the summer. Participants include St. Louis Public Library, Gateway Region YMCA, Barnes-Jewish Youth and Outreach Development, Ferguson Municipal Library, United 4 Children and University City Public Library.
The charge was ambitious. Conditions were complicated. The results have been transformative.
The Lewis Collaborative, located less than a mile north of Washington University’s Danforth Campus, represents a new chapter for one of University City’s oldest and most storied sites. Over the last century, the sprawling, three-building complex originally built as an art school for women has housed a junior high, a high school, district offices and, most recently, studio and classroom space for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Now, following a multimillion-dollar renovation, the 3.75-acre property encompasses: 93 residential units; offices and co-working spaces for TechArtista; a coffee shop and communal kitchen; and flexible classroom space, known as the studiolabs, for the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences.