ALTON/EDWARDSVILLE - If you ask any Freedom School student, they’d agree that the experience has improved their reading — but it’s been about much more than just books. This summer, Alton Middle School students could participate in Freedom School, a supplemental literacy program that encourages reading and social activism. SIUE students taught 50 incoming sixth, seventh and eighth graders how to use their voices through books about social justice.“It’s evolved into ...