Students compete in MLK Jr. Oratorical Festival for 38th year
Oakland Unified School District's 38th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Festival culminates on March 7.
Tag Archives: Literacy
Oakland non-profit promotes literacy through diversity and representation
Denmark Gatewood had a captive audience. On Saturday, he sat on a small stage reading children’s books filled with stories about Black children, written by Black authors to a group of mostly Black children and...
Oakland joins nation-wide initiative to increase student reading proficiency levels by 2020
Oakland has joined 130 other communities nation-wide that aim to increase reading proficiency levels by 2020, its specific initiative called the Oakland Reads 2020 campaign.
Reading Partners encourages students to love literacy
The nonprofit organization, Reading Partners, provides literacy tutoring for at-need children in first through fifth grade.
