Gaining Ground
Gaining Ground
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About this organization
Mission
Gaining Ground’s mission is to develop readers, thinkers and leaders by providing families with engaging literacy experiences and access to high-interest, culturally responsive books.
About
Gaining Ground is a grassroots literacy non-profit created by educators recognizing the inequities in access to engaging books, literacy supports, and opportunities for children living in economically disadvantaged areas. Gaining Ground has developed a research-based approach to providing access and choice to engaging books, after-school programming, and summer literacy camps. Many students, the most vulnerable, who struggle to read effectively fall behind their peers. For these students, summer means losing ground. They return to school, having fallen farther behind, and face a steeper and steeper uphill battle until the road forward seems impossible. By the end of sixth grade, there is a three-year literacy gap between economically disadvantaged students and economically advantaged students in schools. Gaining Ground provides children in under-served communities with support, encouragement, individualized instruction, project-based learning experiences, opportunities, and access to high-interest, culturally responsive books that will reverse this negative cycle.