- By Pamela Good
- Beyond Basics
Not Learning to Read is Life Threatening
The tragic truth is we are failing many of our children in America and if they do not receive some badly needed intensive care they may never recover.
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Grants to Beyond Basics and CARE House of Oakland County
Impact100 Oakland County, a woman’s philanthropic group, announced that it has awarded $100,500 grants to Beyond Basics and CARE House of Oakland County.
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- Beyond Basics
The Mars Agency Volunteers!
The Mars Agency, and advertising firm in Southfield, MI, sent some employees to volunteer in our office today. They ask their employees to “give back” to the community one day a year. This group really did a fantastic job organizing and filing all of our years of student data in our new data room.
Beyond Basics is excited to announce that famed local florist Blossoms of Birmingham will be donating the floral table centerpieces for their Ladies Luncheon on June 7th at the Detroit Athletic Club.
- By Ingrid Jacques, The Detroit News
- Literacy
Detroit News: Stop the school reform merry-go-round
Education leaders should take a lesson from the medical world. The overprescription of antibiotics has led to a growing resistance to the life-saving drug. Similarly, the constant stream of school reform plans has had this effect on learning.
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C.H.E.P. Volunteers!
A huge thank you to our volunteers from CHEP! We cannot thank these men and women enough. They assisted us in moving furniture and organizing our new office space, as well as donating paint for our lobby. Thank you so much to our CHEP volunteers! We appreciate you!
- By Beyond Basics
- Beyond Basics
Push22 donates furniture and Budget Movers donates time
Push22 owner Mike Verville read about Beyond Basics in a recent Crain’s Detroit Business article. He was in the process of moving his office to another location and wanted to donate his office furniture to our organization. He reached out to us and we gratefully accepted.
- By Crain’s Detroit Business
- Literacy
DPS 3 finalists for superintendent post
After conducting a nationwide search, the Detroit Public Schools Community District on Saturday announced three finalists for superintendent: Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of Duval County (Florida) Public Schools Derrick R. Coleman, superintendent of the River Rouge district Orlando Ramos, regional superintendent for …
- By Chad Livengood
- Beyond Basics
Crain’s article Elijah’s story
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.
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