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Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2026: Can We Get a Literacy Miracle Here?

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Source: The Philadelphia Citizen

Thirty-one percent. That appalling figure is the percentage of Philadelphia public school third graders who read at grade level — an even lower number than before the School District implemented its new literacy curriculum last year. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Just look at Mississippi. Before 2013, the state ranked 49th in … Continue reading Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2026: Can We Get a Literacy Miracle Here?

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