In my 25 years as an education advocate in New York City, one constant has been the hundreds of frustrated parents each year whose children struggle with reading and cannot find help in the public school system.
One of the most fundamental responsibilities of schools is to teach children how to read, yet at Advocates for Children of New York, we regularly work with middle and high school students who are unable to read menus or job applications, much less novels and textbooks.
The scope of the problem is apparent in the city’s test scores. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, only 36% of Black and Hispanic students in
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