USA: How to fix reading in the era of ESSA

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USA: How to fix reading in the era of ESSA

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Thanks to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute for this piece by Robert Pondiscio:

http://edexcellence.net/articles/how-to ... =hootsuite
How to fix reading in the era of ESSA

In the past two decades, something extraordinary has happened with very little fanfare: The reading ability of our lowest-performing children has increased significantly. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), between 1990 and 2012, the scores of nine-year-olds at the tenth and twenty-fifth percentiles increased by roughly two grade levels (about twenty points). For those children, those gains aren’t just impressive—they’re potentially life-changing.

At the same time, there has been a fourteen-point gain (a little more than a grade level) among fourth graders at the fiftieth percentile and a mere six-point gain among those at the seventy-fifth and ninetieth percentiles.
ROBERT PONDISCIO is a Senior Fellow and the Vice President for External Affairs at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
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