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By the time Chance Wilson was in eighth grade, he was a strong reader. His mother had read to him every night as he was growing up, and he soon got into the habit of reading on his own every day.
That’s why Chance, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was surprised to learn as a middle schooler that some kids his age were still struggling to pronounce certain words—or simply couldn’t read at all.
“Students would refuse to read because they just couldn’t,” recalls Chance, now 21. “I
But after doing some research, Chance discovered that
Chance decided to take action. In 2014, he founded a