Parents Engaged in Education Reform 

Learn and Serve America is a grants program that supports teachers and community members who involve young people in service that relates to studies in school.  More specifically, Learn and Serve America funds service-learning programs. 

Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. (LVA) is a national, not-for profit educational organization, operated by professionals, which delivers tutoring services through a network of more than 50,000 volunteers nationwide. 

National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) assists in addressing urgent national priorities—upgrading the workforce, reducing welfare dependency, raising the standard of living, and creating safer communities by serving as a resource for the literacy community. 

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is America’s leading nonprofit children’s literacy organization.  RIF helps children want to read.  Through a network of volunteer-run programs, RIF gets free books into kids’ hands and makes reading fun through exciting reading-related activities. 

Rolling Readers is one of the nation’s largest non-profit, volunteer children’s literacy programs.  Our volunteers serve more then 250,000 of our nation’s children each week and we want to make sure America Reads and America’s Promise is successful in your community. 

Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) is a national organization that mobilizes college students to address the literacy needs of this country through partnership with community agencies, service organizations, new readers, students, faculty, and administrators. 

The America Reads Challenge calls on all Americans to support teachers and help ensure that every American child can read well and independently by the end of 3rd grade. 

The American Library Association (ALA) is the oldest, largest and most influential library association in the world.  For more than a century, it has been a leader in defending intellectual freedom and promoting the highest quality library and information services.  The American Library Association is committed to protecting public access to information in all forms and to ensuring that library users in the 21st century enjoy the same free and open access to information that they do today. 

The Children’s Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.  Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others:  fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world. 

The International Reading Association is a dynamic and diverse organization that includes classroom teachers, reading specialists, consultants, administrators, supervisors, college teachers, researchers, psychologists, librarians, media specialists, students, and parents.  The Association has more than 90,000 members in 99 countries and represents over 350,000 individuals and institutions through its affiliated councils worldwide. 

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation’s largest organization of early childhood professionals and others dedicated to improving the quality of early childhood education programs for children birth through age eight. 

The National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education (ECI) is funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education.  It is committed to improving the development and learning of young children from birth to age eight. 

The PEER Project at the Federation for Children with Special Needs is funded through grant #HO29K50208 from the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education. Views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Department of Education or its offices. 

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