Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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We are the struggling readers who have been sitting in the back of the classroom trying to be invisible or cutting up--both successful strategies for hiding our real issue. We are the students who have developed amazing coping skills such as copying off other student papers, listening to the teacher as he corrects other students' right and wrong answers, and partially rewriting the question without answering it to avoid the embarrassment of being exposed as poor readers. We talk about how we hate school and teachers because admitting that school is hard is really the task we find difficult.
We live in a small rural area--our high school had less than 65 incoming freshman this year and half of us are struggling readers. Our parents struggle to pay the bills; many of them work long hours or odd hours and as a result they are not always able to help us at home. Our closest library is over 15 miles away and there is no public transportation to help us get there.
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We are the struggling readers who have been sitting in the back of the classroom trying to be invisible or cutting up--both successful strategies for hiding our real issue. We are the students who have developed amazing coping skills such as copying off other student papers, listening to the teacher as he corrects other students' right and wrong answers, and partially rewriting the question without answering it to avoid the embarrassment of being exposed as poor readers. We talk about how we hate school and teachers because admitting that school is hard is really the task we find difficult.
We live in a small rural area--our high school had less than 65 incoming freshman this year and half of us are struggling readers. Our parents struggle to pay the bills; many of them work long hours or odd hours and as a result they are not always able to help us at home. Our closest library is over 15 miles away and there is no public transportation to help us get there.