One day, when she was in fifth grade at St.

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And I ask for a dramatic increase in federal support for adult literacy, so we can mount a national campaign aimed at millions of working people who read at less than a fifth-grade level.

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The average student enters KIPP two years below grade level in fifth grade, and leaves KIPP in eighth grade achieving at a ninth-grade level.

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They studied bilingual programs in the Houston Independent School District and found that native-Spanish speakers were at or above grade level in English and Spanish in first grade through fifth grade.

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