How do you increase high school graduation rates, raise the quality of the workforce and break generational cycles of poverty?

You teach preschoolers that reading is fun.

The DeKalb/Sycamore Bookcase Project is collecting donations of new and gently-used preschool-level books through Friday, April 5. In May, the books will be presented to 50 children who attend Two Rivers Head Start. Each child will receive a solid-oak, two-shelf bookcase with a personalized brass nameplate and a starter library. MDO/ABC Preschool in Sycamore got the project off to a good start with a donation of 377 books collected in February.