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Why 65% of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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American Kids Really Aren't Proficient Readers in Fourth Grade and 8th Grade

Only about a third of kids are proficient readers in fourth grade on that test. There are huge gaps when you look at this by family income, by race. Kids are not being taught to read in many schools in ways that really line up with what we know about reading and how it works.

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