ALMOST 2,000 CHILDREN ATTEND AMERICA READS/COUNTS COSTUMED READOUT AT PRATT
President Thomas F. Schutte reads to children at the America Reads/Counts annual costumed readout. Click here to see more pictures from the event.Pratt’s America Reads/Counts program hosted its eight annual Costumed Readout in the gymnasium on the Brooklyn campus on March 4. The five-hour event featured Pratt faculty, administrators, students, and community members serving as volunteer tutors to 1,800 children at 27 stations set up for reading and related activities.
America Reads/Counts is a federal program designed to address falling literacy scores by offering tutoring. Pratt has offered the program since 2000, and now has about 70 Pratt students who tutor about 5,000 children a week at more than 40 schools and other sites across New York City.
Photos: Kevin Truong
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