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…