USA Today (5/18, Toppo) reports, "If educators want to shrink the number of students who drop out of high school each year, they must greatly increase the number who can read proficiently by the time they're in fourth grade, a key non-profit children's advocacy group says in a new report" by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The Washington Post (5/18, Chandler) adds that the report, "Early Warning: Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters," focuses on "links between early literacy and high school graduation rates and future economic success."
According to Education Week (5/18, Viadero), it says that 85 percent "of poor 4th graders in predominantly low-income schools are failing to reach 'proficient' levels in reading on federal tests." Education Week also points out that the report "lays out the statistical case for the foundation's soon-to-be-announced, 10-year initiative to ensure that more children become proficient readers by the time they leave 3rd grade. As part of the new campaign, the report says, the foundation plans to join with other philanthropies to finance reading-improvement efforts in a dozen states representing different geographic regions in the country
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