In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.

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The math they taught in my senior year at my American high school was at the level of the 4th grade in Korea!!!!!

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All of us want our kids to grow up more likely to read and write and do math at grade level, to graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.

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We want to include 52 skills in one grade level curriculum, in a shorter school day, with local control over standards, with randomly qualified instructors, with varying materials and instructional approaches AND still use a standardized measure of competence.

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Their parents have applied for Harlem Success Academy, a highly regarded charter school where "about 95 percent of the kids are at grade level, " Sackler said in an interview with CNN.

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By third grade, children from low-income families who are not reading at grade level are six times less likely to graduate from high school than students who are proficient.

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They studied bilingual programs in the Houston Independent School District and found that native-Spanish speakers were at or above grade level in English and Spanish in first grade through fifth grade.

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The teachers have their work cut out for them: At the beginning of the school year only 12 of the 69 kindergartners through second graders could read at their grade level.

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In the latest national assessment of school performance, 40% of American ten-year-olds were unable to read at their grade level.

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