Andrew Napolitano is a highly successful attorney, judge, and educator. Mr. Napolitano attended Princeton University and Notre Dame Law school. Mr. Napolitano did all of his undergraduate studies at Princeton University and then he went on to receive his J.D. from Notre Dame Law school. Mr. Napolitano is a Newark, New Jersey native. After graduating from law school and passing the bar in New Jersey back in 1975, he started a private practice as a litigator. One of his first teaching jobs was for one year at the Delaware School of Law; this was back in 1980 and ended in 1981. Mr. Napolitano has published and authored nine books on the topics of politics and legalities. He was a New Jersey Supreme Court judge for over eight years, from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. He taught as a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School. He was also a trial and legal news analyst for Fox News. So his experience spans many different areas of law & politics.

Napolitano has a few law schools that he considers to stand out in the New York state area. He believes the law schools to be the best in this area are Columbia University School of Law, New York University School of Law, and St. John’s University School of Law.

St. John’s University School of Law: New York City

St. John’s University School of Law is on the list of America’s top 100 law schools. This is a Catholic University and it is a private school. An advantage to attending Saint John’s University School of Law is that the LSAT score required for entrance to the school is lower than most institutions. There are not a lot of students competing to attend the University, so the applications are minimal. This institution only has about 250 law students yearly. The school is expensive to attend and is located in Queens, New York.

New York University School of Law

The New York University School of Law is one of the more prominent law schools in New York and America. The school has a student body of over 1600 students. The school is home-based in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. This is one of the more challenging schools to get into because of its popularity. The school is known to produce the best attorneys because of its extensive and challenging curriculum NYU is a historic school and has been in existence since 1831. If an individual is accepted into NYU, they will be in an elite class of attorneys. The graduates of this school usually always pass the bar and receive some of the highest salaries for new graduate attorneys.

Columbia University School of Law
Columbia University School of Law is possibly the best law school in America. When an individual graduates from this program as an attorney, they get some of the most prestigious job offers that pay incredibly high. Getting accepted into this law school is very competitive. The university is small and private and the average student body is just under three hundred and fifty students. The school is very picky about the students they accept into their program—the reason is that every law student who takes the bar exam passes. Columbia University School of Law has a passing rate above 97%.  This is why Andrew Napolitano thinks it is one of the best universities to study law.

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Think about those facts for a moment.

I know when I first heard them I was shocked. Sure, I knew reading skills were vital, but I hadn’t seen the numbers so clearly showing how critical it is to get all kids reading at such an early age.

Raising A Reader MA offers an evidence-based early literacy program that helps families of young children (ages 0-5) develop, practice, and maintain habits of reading together at home. Why? Research shows that the single most significant factor influencing a child’s lifelong achievement is being regularly read to by their parents and adult caregivers before starting kindergarten.

Reading in our house was and continues to be a common occurance. We read to our kids as soon as they were born and to this day they read before going to bed at night. But, we had access to books. We had the money to buy them. Many families don’t have this luxury.

I learned about this organization and the great work they do when they invited to be one of the authors at their annual Dinner With an Author fundraiser. I’m happy to report that $90,000 was raised that night!

Talking to the chairman of the board as well as many of the staff I learned that their core program involves two key components:

1. Their Red Bag Book Rotation program has bright red bags filled with high quality, culturally appropriate children’s books rotate through families’ homes. Over the course of the year, each child gets exposed to dozens of titles to share with their families.
2. Family workshops and training where parents are given the strategies they need to share books effectively with their young children. This is done through a combination of training, workshops and DVD lessons.

Can you imagine not having books in your lives? I certainly can’t and I want to make sure that the next generations has as much access as possible to them.

This may be a Massachusettes focused charity but there are others like them in many other states and if yours doesn’t have one perhaps it is time to start it.

I hope you’ll take the time to learn more about this organization and the work you are doing. If you are a parent, make sure you read to your child tonight!

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