In partnership with Coaching for Literacy, Isaac Brown and the Wichita State men's basketball coaching staff will wear special #Green4Literacy lapel pins and wristbands during Thursday night's home game against the Houston Cougars in an effort to promote childhood reading and the local charity work of United Way of the Plains.
- 66% of American fourth-graders are not reading at grade-level. (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
- 85% of juveniles in the court system cannot read. (National Assessment of Adult Literacy, U.S. Department of Education)
- Illiteracy costs the U.