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Alabama Policymakers Explore How to Increase Early Literacy Proficiency

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In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade. How can we help all students achieve this? Students in all eight – including Florida and Mississippi – outperform states without such policies on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher education classes. Almost anyone can enroll at a community college in California, but each college has its own process to decide how to place students. Photo: Brandon Quester/inewsource.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

But we don’t know how to go about it right now and as an industry we are picking and choosing what feels right as opposed to using evidence-based practices.”. Inside the schools, the share of students qualifying for free lunch, a federal measure of poverty, jumped from 39 percent in 2002-03 to 81 percent in 2018-19.