| | | State libraries hope adventure, humor of 'Tom Sawyer' will boost reading rates |  | Advertisements: |
|  01/16/10 By Michelle Rupe Eubanks, Staff Writer The statistics on reading aren't good. A 2004 report by the National Endowment for the Arts, or NEA, found that fewer than half of American adults read literature. There have been declines among whites, blacks and Hispanics from a previous study done in 1992. READ FULL SOURCE |
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Other news07/12/11 The city of San Angelo will receive $150,000 from the National Endowment of the Arts' "Our Town" fund to support the commissioning of public art and the creation of innovative public spaces along the Concho River Trail.
07/11/11 Milwaukee Repertory Theater has been awarded a grant to host The Big Read in Milwaukee. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
07/16/11 For the fifth consecutive year the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a Big Read grant to Pomona. Hot themes this week:
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