Beyond Words - Oliver James
California has one of the lowest literacy rates in the country and according to the National Center for Education Statistics, around one in five adults cannot read.
One Costa Mesa father is working hard to change his own personal stats and encourage others in the world to read.
Thirty-five-year-old Oliver James says he was forgotten in school and was seen as a bad child. He felt like adults gave up on him. But it wasn’t just in school, he says he didn’t have that extra push at home either.
"There was not one book in my house. No, no, there was nothing," James recalled.
"There were no books…
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