Orange is the new Dress Code By Karen Bossick

Two­-thirds of students who can’t read proficiently by the end of the fourth grade will end up in jail or on welfare, the study added. More than 70 percent of the inmates in America’s prisons cannot read above a fourth­-grade level. And 90 percent of welfare recipients are high school dropouts.

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Students Teaching Students By Karen Bossick

Jody Braun looked at the three students in front of him and sighed. The students were eighth- and seventh­-graders but they read just 20 to 30 words a minute—first­-grade reading level. “Most of them had gravitated toward comic books—anything with lots of pictures,” the special-education reading teacher recalled. “Reading was a chore for them

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Michael By Narda Pitkethly

Michael was one of our first students. He was on juvenile probation and had been ordered by the chief district court judge to take the Nardagani reading program. Due to his criminal behavior, Michael was considered an “at risk” child by the court.

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A Miracle for Gavin!

When a great-aunt worried her nephew would fall behind in reading, the Nardagani Reading Program changed everything in just three weeks—a true reading miracle

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