Sentences with phrase «proficiently by fourth grade»

What can states do to ensure that students read proficiently by fourth grade?

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While nationally 30 percent of urban children read at grade level in fourth grade, Pennsylvania's urban schools successfully teach only 19 percent of their students to read proficiently in primary school, while the state's suburban schools teach more than half of their students to read well — approximately the same proportion left functionally illiterate in fourth grade by the state's urban schools.