Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

仅仅是在小学的一年里有一位优秀的老师，就会让学生们在青少年时期成为母亲的可能性降低一些，而上大学和在28岁时赚更多钱的可能性增加一些。

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"We are the Harry Potter generation," says Andrea Hill, 19. "we started in elementary school, reading about a boy our age who was going through the same things we were going through."

“我们是哈利·波特一代，”19岁的安德丽亚希尔说：“从小学开始，我们就在阅读这个同龄男孩的故事，我们有着相同的经历。”

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British primary schooling, in contrast, turns out thousands upon thousands without elementary reading or numerical skills, kids condemned to failure at an obscenely early age.

相比之下，英国的初级学校有许多甚至没有教授基本的阅读和数学技巧，以至于孩子们在很小的时候就注定了失败。

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It is a nationwide program that connects people over age fifty-five with elementary school students from low-income families.

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"The Lottery, " directed by Madeleine Sackler, follows four elementary-age children from low-income neighborhoods in New York.

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Elementary school-age children were eating at some of the restaurants and no one was trying to escape, she said.

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According to UNESCO and the World Bank, nearly 400 million elementary- and secondary-age children are not attending school.

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