Source: Show-Me Institute
by Susan Pendergrass
“Recently, Show-Me Institute analysts have been sounding the alarm on Missouri’s literacy crisis. The data are sobering — 42 percent of our state’s fourth graders can barely read, representing some of the worst results we have seen in two decades. When a child reaches the end of third grade without the ability to decode text, they do not just fall behind. They are essentially locked out of the rest of the curriculum.” (03/31/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/why-the-science-of-reading-is-missouris-path-forward/