Inside Dolly Parton's Literacy Project

Literacy 2.0: The New Frontier of Literacy in the Digital Age by BAM Radio Network

Jul 9, 201010:11Education

Dolly Parton's Literacy initiative is called the Imagination Library project. The program gives a book a month to over 600,000 children from zero until their fifth birthday. Beginning in Tennessee, the program now reache...

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