Data that was released from the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), of the sample who took the assessment the average reading score for eighth-grade students was lower than 2013’s score. (http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/) According to NAEP, 66% of students in the eighth-grade read at or below basic in proficiency. (https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading_math_2015/#reading/acl?grade=8) For all populations the data showed either no change or a decrease in reading. (https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading_math_2015/#reading?grade=4) If students cannot read, they cannot be proficient in any curriculum. In California reading levels are lower than the national public. Almost 59% of California students receive free and reduced-price meals (http://www.ed-data.org/state/CA). This means that over half the state falls close to or over the poverty line, which relates to few resources for literacy outside of school.
This study took place in the East Bay of San Francisco.. The city is small with big city problems. It has a 51% increase over the national crime index average. In the 2014-2015 school year, the school district had 74.1% students receiving a free/reduced priced meal. In the school for this study for the 2014-2015 school year had 43% Hispanic or Latino and 39.6% Black or African American students. That means that 82.9% of the school’s population had a reading score that decreased from 2013-2015 (https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading_math_2015/#reading?grade=4). The school for this study has the most impoverished amount of students. A staggering 92.4% of students receive free and reduced-price meals. Over nine out of ten children live in a family that is either close to or over the poverty line.
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