Ryan read Rand in high school.

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Only one in three children left high school able to read proficiently.

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In high school, she read anything she could find on psychoanalysis.

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It staggers me that we can have a head of government who hasn't read a novel or play or poem since high school.

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In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.

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They read that there are over 2 million brain injuries a year among high school athletes.

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We live in a world where high school football players have fabricated their college recruitment ( read more here).

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All of us want our kids to grow up more likely to read and write and do math at grade level, to graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.

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No child should graduate from high school with a diploma he or she can't read.

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That side of my brain had begun to develop in high school, largely because I was a competitive runner who read books on training and learned to coach myself.

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"From the start of secondary school, young people, including both high ability and struggling readers, tend to read books that do not challenge them enough, " said Prof Topping, from Dundee University's school of education.

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