“SUDDENLY, THE WORLD is waking up [to the fact] that it matters what you do with young children,” Abigail Adams Eliot told the Boston Globe in 1965. A Boston native who lived to be 100, Eliot was, as the Globe called her, an “indomitable” teacher and champion of nursery schools. If she were alive today, […]
Christopher Martes
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MCAS scores highlight 3d-grade reading problem
Last month’s release of 2013 MCAS results generated some good news. Concealed in the results, however, is a hidden story that is cause for concern: 43 percent of the state’s third graders are not proficient readers – compared to 39 percent last year. Among children from low-income families, a shocking 65 percent lag in reading. […]