At a Charleston School, High Expectations for Reading Yield Staggering Results

Post and Courier (SC)

For most schools, the goal is to have students recognizing letters and sounds and reading simple text by the end of kindergarten. At downtown Meeting Street Academy, all the students entering first grade are reading, and the same is true for about one-third of those starting kindergarten. Some of the incoming first-graders are so advanced they can read 60-page books. Meeting Street Academy enrolls students whose parents want them to have a high-quality education but can't afford private-school tuition. The goal is for these high-poverty students to graduate from high school and college and become community leaders.

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