Educare children help break world record

Educare of Chicago Participates in Jumpstart's Read for the Record on Oct. 8
October 8, 2009

The preschoolers at Educare of Chicago surrounded their teacher, patiently sitting cross-legged in the reading corner of their classroom. As the teacher read A Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, the children eagerly read along with her, joining 2 million children around the world to break a world record.

Seventy-two preschoolers at Educare participated in the Oct. 8 Read for the Record, a global effort to break the record for the number of people reading the same book on the same day. The event was sponsored by Jumpstart, a national early childhood organization, to raise awareness of early childhood literacy in low-income communities.

Educare of Chicago, the Ounce of Prevention Fund's birth-to-five school on the South Side, has become a national model for narrowing the academic achievement gap for low-income children. Educare will celebrate its 10-year anniversary in 2010.



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