{"id":105,"date":"2024-01-01T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2feetout.azurewebsites.net\/?p=105"},"modified":"2024-11-30T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T21:40:03","slug":"lack-of-books-and-access-to-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Books and Access to Print"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy001-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" style=\"width:427px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2feetout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy001.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2feetout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy001.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2feetout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy001.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2feetout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy001.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ffcbdc62f9ffb9be897e81919b2cccf5\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>In middle-income neighborhoods the ratio of books per child is 13 to 1, in low-income neighborhoods, the ratio is 1 age-appropriate book for every 300 children.&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Neuman, Susan B. and David K. Dickinson, ed. Handbook of Early Literacy Research, Volume 2. New York, NY: 2006, p. 31<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-496005acfb7b7da5b2bf42e74504fcf7\" style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong>61% of low-income families have no books at all in their homes for their children.&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Reading Literacy in the United States: Findings from the IEA Reading Literacy Study. (1996).<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b53546da31d2eed74d483ab9814c5472\" style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong>Children in low-income families lack essential one-on-one reading time. The average child growing up in a middle class family has been exposed to 1,000 to 1,700 hours of one-on-one picture book reading. The average child growing up in a low-income family, in contrast, has only been exposed to 25 hours of one-on-one reading.&nbsp;<\/strong><em>McQuillan, J. (1998).The Literacy Crisis: False Claims, Real Solutions. Heinemann.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literacy-statistics","tag-page"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2feetout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy001.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}