Usha Vance’s Summer Challenge Helped 30,000 Children Pick Up Real Books

Usha Vance’s Summer Challenge Helped 30,000 Children Pick Up Real Books

WASHINGTON — When Usha Vance considered what issues she wanted to tackle as second lady of the United States, her own children were just learning how to read. As she was teaching them to read and love books, she noticed plummeting literacy rates across the country. “I was really concerned by what I was seeing about the decline in literacy scores, the decline in reading for pleasure,” she shared in an interview with The Daily Wire from her office…

Second Lady Vance’s Reading Challenge

Second Lady Usha Vance’s Summer Reading Challenge concluded this week with over 0,000 Submissions and 360,000 books read after three months of encouraging childhood literacy.