A simple, but powerful notion

What started six years ago with the concept of building literacy, one neighborhood at a time, has rather quietly exploded into a movement that now spans across the United States and around the world.

As detailed in today’s Post-Record, in 2009 Todd Bol of Hudson, Wisconsin, built — using all recycled materials — a model of a one-room schoolhouse. It was a tribute to his mother, a retired teacher who loved reading. He filled the little schoolhouse with books and attached it to a post in his front yard. His community responded with great enthusiasm, and he built several more to give away.