More than half of 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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"Children learn to read only by reading. Therefore, the only way to facilitate their learning to read is to make reading easy for them." This quote from Frank Smith, 1983, sums up my beliefs about teaching reading to the 7th graders in my low-income, urban Illinois classroom.
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"Children learn to read only by reading. Therefore, the only way to facilitate their learning to read is to make reading easy for them." This quote from Frank Smith, 1983, sums up my beliefs about teaching reading to the 7th graders in my low-income, urban Illinois classroom.