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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. So in 2015, he assigned Harper to visit all of Bethlehem’s elementary schools and find out how children were being taught to read.

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

Reviews of the program conducted in 2016 by the Administration for Children and Families, the federal governing body for Head Start, found nothing to correct. billion spent to serve about 1 million children in the 2016 fiscal year. million on its school district-based Head Start program in fiscal year 2016. But the U.S.

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