Laura Bornfreund: W.Va. does well in childhood literacy
Article/Op-Ed in Charleston Gazette-Mail
Dec. 17, 2015
West Virginia, there’s good news and there’s bad news.
The bad news — and it truly is bad — is that only about 25 percent of the state’s low-income students are reading at grade level by fourth grade.
The good news is that, despite that, West Virginia sits close to the top of New America’s recent scan of state policies that support children’s literacy development.