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Behind the Numbers: How Is the U.S. Doing in Teaching Children to Read?

By Sean Reardon, Ed.D. and Sadie Richardson 

a representative group of students in the U.S.
A graph showing the trends of reading achievement at age 9 by race and ethnicity

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