70 percent of 4th-graders don’t read proficiently — what’s the problem?

Seventy. That’s the percentage of fourth graders in Arizona who don’t read proficiently. If that isn’t alarming enough, a whopping 56 percent of third-graders failed the reading portion of the AzMERIT test in 2017, meaning they scored neither proficient nor highly proficient. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 65 percent of fourth-graders nationwide…

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It’s 2018. Why is there a gender wage gap?

The gender wage gap is many things. It’s the occupation women choose. It’s the education women pursue. It’s the statistical motherly traits women possess. But after all that, there’s still a percentage of the wage gap, sometimes as much as 38 percent, that remains inexplicable to researchers. This is often deemed simply. It’s discrimination.  The National…

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