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EdNC: Book Harvest’s Book Babies: “Unleashing parent leadership at birth could lead to a lifet

Benay Hicks

“Not all kids go to sleep at night with a bedtime story,” says Ginger Young, the founder and executive director of Book Harvest in Durham, when Larry Colbourne of the Mebane Foundation and I visited her earlier this year. “And yet literacy begins with language.” Young is imagining a new normal for newborns in Durham… Read more

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