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Children learn in their own way. instead of grades, they're using levels. deb feyrick has today's "don't fail me." >> have a good day. see you. >> reporter: just outside denver, colorado, something interesting is happening in at hodgkin's elementary school. >> working on measuring using a string. >> reporter: kids discovering a different way of learning. >> it's an x-ray. >> reporter: victor and delsar are 11. ask them what grade they're in, you won't get a traditional answer. >> level 7. >> reporter: you are? >> six. >> reporter: what about reading. >> level 7. >> reporter: you are? >> seven....

Point number two, if a child can't read well by the time he's in third grade he's four times less likely to graduate from high school by age 19 than one who can. and if he happens to be poor, he's six times less likely to graduate. so by boosting reading levels we can help more of our kids make the grade. keep on advancing. reach that day so many parents dream of until it comes close and then you start tearing up and that's when they're walking across the stage holding that high school diploma. number three, we know that latino kids are almost twice as likely as wit kids to be spended from sch...