Thursday, June 10, 2010

Grade 3 students lagging on reading - The Boston Globe

Grade 3 students lagging on reading - The Boston Globe

Grade 3 students lagging on reading

Almost half score below proficient; overhaul sought

By June Wu
Globe Correspondent / June 10, 2010
Almost half of Massachusetts third-graders are not proficient readers, a sobering statistic in a new report that calls for an overhaul of reading programs across the state to reach children at an early age.
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The report, commissioned by the Boston-based Strategies for Children and scheduled to be released today, urges state educators and education policy-makers to refocus literacy efforts on improving language development skills, starting with toddlers, with the aim of closing achievement gaps between students of different socioeconomic backgrounds.
“We know that we’re not doing a good enough job,’’ said Nonie Lesaux, the study’s lead author and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “We know that a lot of dollars are being spent. But the data would suggest that we’re not having nearly the impact that we ought to be having.’’
Third-grade reading proficiency is an indicator of later academic success, Lesaux said, and a large majority of children who struggle with reading in the third

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