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Jones, Brandon; Ifekwunigwe, Ann – Virginia Department of Education, 2013
Newport News is a city of 193,000 people, located between Williamsburg and Norfolk in Southeastern Virginia. Newport News Public Schools (NNPS) educates approximately 30,500 children, grades Pre-K to 12, of whom 55.7% are Black, 29% are White, 9.9% are Hispanic, 2.9% are Asian, and 2.5% are other races. Newport News Public Schools' (NNPS') Special…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, High School Students, Summer Programs, Grade 9
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Hillery, Leanne B.; Henkel, Harold L. – Public Services Quarterly, 2010
This article recounts the experience of the Regent University Library in planning and implementing a festival of Tolstoy and Russian culture as part of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read initiative. The NEA launched the Big Read in 2006 to counter the alarming decline of literary reading documented in its 2002 report Reading at…
Descriptors: National Organizations, Art Activities, Program Development, Reading Programs