claim: "there is a big correlation between third grade reading level and whether you go to college or whether you go to prison. and in florida right now only 56 percent of kids are coming out of third grade at third grade reading level."
author: jeff greene
evidence_1: ... grade matters. a kids count special report from the annie e. casey  foundation .... percent of 4th graders scoring below proficient and below basic ...  level in reading today are all too likely to ... the bottom line is that if we don't get  ... will be paid not only by individual children ...... birth through third grade that link  early.
evidence_2: aug 20, 2018 ... some of the students being allowed to move on to the fourth grade completed ... if  south carolina had held back students at florida's rate, then it would ... a single  large district and found 93 percent scored below grade level on the ... “if i don't  read enough, i have to do third grade again. ... here is his secret.
evidence_3: early warning confirmed: a research update on third-grade reading ... off the  campaign for grade-level reading — not only in the research world, as this ...  representing 350 school districts with 8 million students — 16 percent of all  children ... that go beyond holding kids back for more of the same. ...... three  illinois prisons.
evidence_4: for those exemplar texts not in the public domain, we secured permissions and  in some cases ... (individual grade-specific reading standards are identified by  their ... so that ri.4.3, for example, stands for reading, informational text, grade 4 , standard 3. ...... “dear moon,” said owl, “you really must not come home with me.
evidence_5: reading statistics. out-of-school reading habits of students has shown that even  15 minutes a day of independent reading can expose students to more than a ...