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Terms of money. the matthew effect is real. matthew is true for book learning, too. can just one year so early in a child's life determine so much? joining me now to help answer that question and many more about this is the aforementioned annie murphy paul. she's backed up by matt siegel, president of ourtime.org and civil rights attorney maya riley. what should i as the parent of a fifth grader and take away, and maya the parent of a third grader, what should we take away from this piece telling us that third grade is the critical moment? >> the first thing to realize is that it's never too l...

Does not work. $10,000 is the cost of third grade in some states that have mandatory retention. you said the definition of insanity is repeating itself over and over. >> right. >> why redo it? why not take that $10,000 and give it to a well qualified mentor or an after school teach whole can take thevilleized style or unique i'd you sin skras sis by which people learn and apply that more proactively and productively so that the student gops and whether they have to put additional time in afterwards. >> let's be clear. this is what happens in schools of privilege. >> of course. >> if you are a ...

Poverty, regardless of reading proficiency, did not complete high school on time. which is the same number for poor white students who did miss the reading proficiency mark. but if you're black or brown, 31% is how many poor african-american students who missed the third grade reading proficiency mark didn't graduate on time. 33% is how many poor latino students who failed to hit that third grade reading mark turned 19 without high school diplomas. but then there is this number. zero. zero is the gap between white and minority students when not living in poverty when it comes to graduation rat...

Third, as in third grade, which according to a study by professor of sociology donald hernandez at the city university of new york is the most important year in your education. why? because it's the year that you stop learning to read and start reading to learn. 3,975, that's how many students professor hernandez followed for 19 years, tracking their reading scores and economic status. of all the students surveyed, one-third struggled to read in third grade. and if they were among that third, they were four times, that's how much more likely students are not to graduate from high school on tim...

A question for all of the adults watching. do you remember third grade? turns out that this third grade may not be your first memory that you have of pencil, books, and teachers' dirty looks, but it may be the most pivotal juncture in our lives. highlighting the recent study we broke down in the last segment our guest eddie murphy paul wrote in "time" magazine about the importance of 24ird grade, saying, quote, it's the year that students move from the learn to read, using their knowledge of the alphabet to learning to read. what's at stake is called the matthew effect after the newest thement...