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Editor’s note: Reporter Alex Baumhardt worked almost exclusively on this series for more than four months, starting in January. The project involved extensive research and interviews with more than 80 people, including state and local leaders, teachers, parents and students. She collected data and historical documents through records requests with state agencies and school districts, […]

Education Reform: Half a Loaf

Since its inception, Head Start has enrolled over 21 millionchildren at a cost of over $66 billion, but there is littleevidence of long-term impact, and poor children enter kindergartena step behind their middle-class peers and never catch up. Congressshould focus on improving Head Start programs by enacting higherstandards, requiring stronger accountability, and spurringinnovation.

Experts warn that most American children learn with ineffective reading curriculums.

I hate to admit this, but I learned almost as much about reading instruction from four hours of listening to “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong” as I have from 20 years of covering education. The podcast by American Public Media reporters Emily Hanford and Christopher Peak lays out decades of context for what’s been dubbed the reading wars.

California fourth graders trail the nation in reading, and half of its third graders, including two-thirds of Black students and 61% of Latino students, do not read at grade level.

A national push to change the teaching of reading shows contrast between other states and California's hands-off approach.

California fourth graders trail the nation in reading, and half of its third graders, including two-thirds of Black students and 61% of Latino students, do not read at grade level.

Town will start their 2003/04 First Division campaign with a home game against Reading on Saturday, August 9th. It is the first time the Blues have begun a season at Portman Road since 1999/00.

April 12th is Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Day, an annual celebration of reading that occurs on the birthday of beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary. But do today’s elementary students even possess the literacy skills to read about Ramona’s adventures?