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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. This weekend, the Albuquerque Journal, in partnership with KOAT-TV and KKOB News Radio, will launch a yearlong, coordinated effort to explore the issues and seek potential solutions to New Mexico’s ongoing literacy crisis – the state ranks 49th in the country and has made no measurable progress in the last 20 years.
Through The Literacy Project, the three newsrooms and their producers, reporters and editors will publish and air in-depth stories and interviews to identify gaps, resources and opportunities to create positive, workable solutions.
“Literacy is one of the most crucial, liberating and illuminating tools a person can acquire,” says Albuquerque Journal Publisher William Lang. “The ability to read elevates an individual personally, economically and socially. Despite New Mexico’s devastatingly low literacy rates, we believe they can be improved with stra