Good News for the kids in East Harlem’s Public School 112. “The teachers have to stay late to level the books,” said principal Eileen Reiter, referring to the method teachers use to rate the difficulty of each book. “It’s made a major difference. … If you want kids to be good readers, they need to be surrounded by books.”
The source of this literary influx is the massive book-buying spree that city educrats launched in 2003, spending almost $35 million to stock 32,000 city classrooms with 10.4 million new books.
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