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Focus Turns to Third-Grade Readers
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams //Apr. 15, 2012 // 8:33 PM


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Education experts are focusing on third-grade literacy, saying that students who can’t read by third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school.

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