Matthew C. Perry Elementary partakes in Read Across the Globe

Eileen Meyer, a 5th grade teacher with Matthew C. Perry Elementary, reads to her students as part of an official attempt to break a Guinness World Record aimed to raise awareness about literacy at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Oct. 19, 2015. Points of Light, the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, Deloitte and hundreds of other organizations hope to read to the most children ever in a 24 hour period by working across time zones and continents. Read Across the Globe is an event during this literacy-awareness week that brings the power of volunteers together to impact literacy in local communities. The current record for most children to in a 24 hour period is 238, 620 with Read Across the Globe aiming to set the new record at 300,000.

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Matthew C. Perry Elementary partakes in Read Across the Globe

Oct 22, 2015

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan - Eileen Meyer, a 5th grade teacher with Matthew C. Perry Elementary, reads to her students as part of an official attempt to break a Guinness World Record aimed to raise awareness about literacy at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Oct. 19, 2015. Points of Light, the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, Deloitte and hundreds of other organizations hope to read to the most children ever in a 24 hour period by working across time zones and continents. Read Across the Globe is an event during this literacy-awareness week that brings the power of volunteers together to impact literacy in local communities. The current record for most children to in a 24 hour period is 238, 620 with Read Across the Globe aiming to set the new record at 300,000.

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