Early Matters Dallas
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Description: The literacy crisis affects students and communities across the United States. Dallas is demonstrating how to fight back.
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The United States is currently plagued by an early literacy crisis of staggering scale and unfortunate resilience due to a systemic failure to develop young children into strong readers. Inadequate support and a lack of opportunity have prevented 65% of students across the nation from reading proficiently by fourth grade. 1 National reading performance has stagnated over the past decade, even demonstrating a significant decline between 2017 and 2019. At the state level, it is difficult to find bright spots:
Through third grade, students learn to read; from fourth grade onward, they read to learn, which means that failing to provide a student with the support necessary to read hinders their academic success across the board. Students not supported to read on grade level by the end of third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school, their future opportunities are reduced, their potential earnings are lower, and their cost to society can increase. 3 This persistent early literacy crisis has impa
Early Matters Dallas
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