Beyond Basics is a Michigan-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, founded in 1999, that’s dedicated to delivering a proven literacy solution to K-12 students and beyond. Currently operating in 10 ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A $1 million gift from the Wayne and Joan Webber ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — The AA Van Elslander Foundation gave a huge donation to the Beyond Basic literacy program at Denby High School. The late Art Van Elslander ...

We want to introduce you to another Detroit 2020 Changemaker. The number of people who cannot read in this country is astounding at 32 million adults, and in Detroit it's shocking that nearly half of ...

Southfield-based Beyond Basics celebrated successfully tutoring children through a pandemic school year at its annual event, “Coming Together for Children,” June 23, at the Detroit Athletic Club.

William Wheeler was working his way through a phonics exercise with his tutor on a rainy Thursday morning. “Night. Coupon. Disease,” William said out loud, reading from a list of words as his tutor, ...

The wife of Detroit schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti has resigned as a director of Beyond Basics, a nonprofit under contract with the district to tutor the most academically challenged high school ...

It has been said that a family of readers become the people who move the world and that certainly rings true for Wayne and Joan Webber. “Everyone, my mom, aunt, uncle and myself were readers as far ...