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Literacy Gap
The National Center for Education Statistics reports that for Black, and Hispanic children, more than 80 percent in each group are not proficient readers. A long-term study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) found that students not proficient in reading by the end of third grade were four times more likely to drop out of high school than proficient readers and are likely to experience consequences that stretch into adulthood.
Research has shown that there is a direct link between reading engagement and
reaching achievement (Logan & Johnston, 2009), and textual selection can be counted as a factor behind reading underachievement in Black and Latinx youth. In other words, representation matters!
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