More than three‑quarters 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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I teach a fantastic group of 2nd graders at a Title 1 school. We have very high populations of English Language Learners and "socio-economically disadvantaged" students. Each class at our school "adopts" a college to motivate our students to become lifelong learners. Every year my class of Western Kentucky Hilltoppers gets larger (32 and counting), our budget gets smaller, and more struggling readers enter my classroom. Many of these students don't have support in English at home, and most are barraged with so many other things outside of school that the only time they are focused on reading is at school with me. With all the pressure placed on students at such a young age to achieve and score well on tests, I want my kids to understand that reading can be fun too! It’s so hard to motivate those kids who constantly find reading to be a harrowing task. These TAG Readers are a fantastic way to draw in students that struggle and show them how amazing reading can be.
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I teach a fantastic group of 2nd graders at a Title 1 school. We have very high populations of English Language Learners and "socio-economically disadvantaged" students. Each class at our school "adopts" a college to motivate our students to become lifelong learners. Every year my class of Western Kentucky Hilltoppers gets larger (32 and counting), our budget gets smaller, and more struggling readers enter my classroom. Many of these students don't have support in English at home, and most are barraged with so many other things outside of school that the only time they are focused on reading is at school with me. With all the pressure placed on students at such a young age to achieve and score well on tests, I want my kids to understand that reading can be fun too! It’s so hard to motivate those kids who constantly find reading to be a harrowing task. These TAG Readers are a fantastic way to draw in students that struggle and show them how amazing reading can be.