These Schools Are Beating the Odds in Teaching Kids to Read
New analysis compares literacy vs. poverty rates for 10,000 districts, 42,000 schools and 3 million kids.
America's Education News Source Copyright 2025 The 74 Media, Inc. This article is part of Bright Spots, a series highlighting schools where every child learns to read, no matter their zip code.
Explore the Bright Spots map to find out which schools are beating the odds in terms of literacy versus poverty rates.
Kids learn to read, and then they read to learn.
That’s the saying, at least, and even if the reality is more complicated than that, it’s true that early reading is highly predictive of later-life outcomes. Students who struggle with early reading skills tend to have more behavioral problems and are less likely to graduate high school than those who are skilled at decoding letters into sounds and translating those sounds into meaning.
Author's summary: Schools succeed despite poverty rates.
- 10,000 districts
- 42,000 schools
- 3 million kids
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