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BY JANE JAFFEREighteen ‘Let’s Read’ volunteers from Oman, Zanzibar, Lebanon, India, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Algeria drove along the Batinah Coast in a six-car convoy. We were chatting away quite happily to each other until we reached the outskirts of Al Khabourah and witnessed, first-hand, the terrible impact the tropical cyclone Shaheen had on...
The Read Team bringing books to children of Jackson The Jackson Sun 9 hrs ago Brandon Shields, Jackson Sun © PAULA OSPINA/ The Jackson Sun Children enter the WOW Wagon on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in Jackson, Tenn. The READ Team, traveled to three different locations on Wednesday allowing children to wonder in the mobile library and select two books of their choice. As Regional Interfaith Association’s (RIFA) Bus Stop Café pulls into The Villages of Old Hickory apartment complex, the driver takes a trip around the complex periodically honking the horn to alert the child...
When the pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, acclaimed Chicago restaurant Fat Rice told workers it would be closed only temporarily. It laid off around 70 employees and in April pivoted to donating grocery boxes, eventually operating as Super Fat Rice Mart, a general store offering $100 meal kits. But employees were left guessing as to when Fat Rice would reopen, what that would look like, and whether they would have jobs when it did. By June, though, they had their answer: After a wave of accusations that owner Abe Conlon berated female employees, treated Black employees differentl...
WBBJ TV April 13, 2021 JACKSON, Tenn. — Have you ever read a book that made you say “wow!”? That’s what The Read Team is hoping their new “Words on Wheels” will do this summer. “It’s a practical way we can get books in the homes. That’s one of they key factors in learning how to read, having books around the home,” said James Christoferson, program director for The Read Team. The “WOW” trailer can fit thousands of books for all grade levels — everything from picture books to “Nancy Drew.” And it was named by Alexander Elementary’s own Principal Carolyn Caldwell...
“’I’m giving you my baby,’” a parent once told Penny Schwinn, then a principal. The Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner didn’t quite understand what she meant until Schwinn became a mother when she adopted her first child – something that shapes her decisions as a commissioner. “’I love this baby, but I cannot give her what she deserves; I cannot give her what she needs, so I’m giving you my baby,’” the birth mother told Schwinn. “In that moment, becoming a new mom and hearing that responsibility… for the first time, it clicked for me like it never has b...