Submitted: The Two Sides Team November 28, 2012
With more than 20 schools in New York City unable to reopen and dozens of schools in New Jersey still closed in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Scholastic, the global childrens publishing, education and media company, today announced that it will donate one million books to schools and libraries in the hardest-hit areas of the tri-state region.
November 12 2012, via Book Business
With more than 20 schools in New York City unable to reopen and
dozens of schools in New Jersey still closed in the wake of Hurricane
Sandy, Scholastic, the global childrens publishing, education and media
company, today announced that it will donate one million books to
schools and libraries in the hardest-hit areas of the tri-state region.
To help in the recovery efforts with support for the educators,
families and students who have suffered losses, Scholastic is accepting
book grant requests at www.scholastic.com/bookgrants
and will provide new books and resources that will help get tens of
thousands of students reading and learning again, despite severely
challenging circumstances. Scholastic is grateful to be working with the
nonprofit Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc., to help distribute the million books to the schools and libraries that need them the most.
In addition to the loss of books in schools, many teachers have lost
vital instructional resources and lesson plans that they have
accumulated over the years, so Scholastic is also making available a
rich array of free, grade-leveled lesson plans and activities for these
educators. Teachers in neighborhoods impacted by the storm will receive
an email from Scholastic with a link to the free, downloadable,
ready-to-use materials that can immediately support their classroom
instruction and provide purposeful practice for their students as they
begin to rebuild their classroom resources.
The educators, parents and caregivers, who are helping children in
our hard hit communities throughout the region, are true heroes, said
Richard Robinson, Chairman, President and CEO, Scholastic. All of us
at Scholastic are committed to getting these books, lesson plans and
other learning materials into the affected communities as soon as
possible in the hope that we can provide support for our young people as
they return to schools that need extra resources.
For educators, parents and caregivers, Scholastic is also providing free online resources to support childrens social and emotional recovery, including: