More Brutal Facts about Reading
March 10th, 2008 Tagged Brutal Facts, reading
From an article in The Beacon News:
“According to a 1996 Journal of Educational Psychology study, 74 percent of children who are poor readers in the third grade remain poor readers in the ninth grade.”
“One study says 61 percent of children who come from low-income families have no books at home.”
“Forty percent of students can’t read at their grade level.”
“One statistic prison planners use to determine the number of prison cells a community will need is to find the number of 8-year-olds who are reading below grade level.”
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