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Institute for Public Service Reporting – Memphis

All posts tagged "response to intervention"

Madison Clark (left), Ayanna Hughes, La’kiya Carr and Jaylen King work at an easel where they color their reading assignment in Thomas Denson’s Pre-K class at Cherokee Elementary School. More than three in four Shelby County elementary students, and four in five middle and high school students, read below grade level. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Madison Clark (left), Ayanna Hughes, La’kiya Carr and Jaylen King work at an easel where they color their reading assignment in Thomas Denson’s Pre-K class at Cherokee Elementary School. More than three in four Shelby County elementary students, and four in five middle and high school students, read below grade level. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Education

Part 1: Chronic poverty, trauma complicate efforts to close third-grade reading gap in Memphis

"When kids are in survival mode, they can't learn."

David WatersMay 16, 2019