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Adolescent Readers Initiative (November 2, 2007)
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Secretary Spellings and Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott discuss the importance of reading and the 2007 Adolescent Readers Initiative at Webb Middle School in Austin, Texas. The initiative will provide 520,000 free, new books to improve the literacy skills of struggling adolescent readers in low-income schools and communities.


Secretary Spellings speaks at the announcement of the 2007 Adolescent Readers Initiative at Webb Middle School in Austin, Texas. Secretary Spellings sits in on a class at Webb Middle School in Austin, Texas.
Secretary Spellings talks with students at Webb Middle School in Austin, Texas. Secretary Spellings speaks at the announcement of the 2007 Adolescent Readers Initiative at Webb Middle School in Austin, Texas.
Secretary Spellings accepts flowers from a student at Webb Middle School in Austin, Texas. Secretary Spellings and Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott discuss the importance of reading and the 2007 Adolescent Readers Initiative at Webb Middle School in Austin, Texas.

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