CNN.com - Mogul's literacy investment paying off - Jun 13, 2005: "CLEVELAND, Mississippi (AP) -- For Lester Fisher, it was a first, and a small sign of progress: Parents stopped him in the grocery store to talk about their children's love of books.
'Our kids really don't come from a literature-rich environment,' said Fisher, principal of Nailor Elementary -- considered the poorest school in this Mississippi Delta town. 'Many of our children really don't have the bare necessities at home.'
Nailor Elementary is one of 71 schools across the state seeing the benefits of literacy help offered by Barksdale Reading Institute, a computer mogul's ambitious program.
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