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Moore-Hart, Margaret; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2009
In 1996 President Clinton established the America Reads Challenge Act (1997), which included a commitment that every child will read independently and well by the end of third grade. This initiative was predicated on links between achievement and poverty (Riley, 1996, 2002) and that children reading below grade level in the early grades perform…
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