The president of the National Educational Association, Dennis Van Roekel, wrote a letter to President Barack Obama on the eve of the president’s sixth State of the Union address. The NEA - the nation’s largest teachers association - has grown concerned with the state of education in the nation today and felt it necessary for the president to
80% of Lower-Income 4th Graders Cannot Read At Grade Level: Report
The reading proficiency gap between lower and higher-income students has spiked by 20 percent over the last decade, a recent report found.