Businesses aim high with literacy program
Backers make solving Detroit schools’ illiteracy crisis their business
The battle against Detroit’s illiteracy crisis is fought one child at a time. Consider the story of Elijah Craft, a towering 6-foot, 6-inch 12th-grader at Central High School, where he plays football, basketball and baseball. The 17-year-old Elijah was reading at a first-grade level at the start of his…
