#152 The Reading Wars Are Older Than You Think
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The Importance of Reading First
Karen Loom is the author most recently of districts that succeed breaking the correlation between race, poverty and achievement. She says if you look at the long-term nape, there are two big periods of improvement for all student groups. The first was from 1971 to 1988 when we actually got serious about desegregating public schools. There's a second period of improvement from around 1999 to 2012. But doesn't that make it all the more weird that this whole time has been essentially forgotten?
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