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Closing the Reading Gap: Reading Determines Your Success in Life.
Right Path to Learning promotes early literacy in these first crucial years while there’s still a chance to make a difference between success or failure in life.
Can you imagine your life without reading?
What if you could not read well enough to understand street signs, follow directions, conduct your business, or even fit in with your friends at school? What if you could not get a job because you could not read?
Reading is the foundation of a good education and fundamental to success in life.
Success starts early. Until 3rd grade, children are learning to read. After the 3rd grade, they’re reading to learn.
Students who don’t achieve literacy by 3rd grade fall behind and become bored, frustrated, and unlikely to graduate high school, much less go on to higher education.
There is a new reading program called Right Path to Learning that will be coming soon for a few select 3rd-grade Oakland students.
Right Path to Learning promotes early literacy in these first crucial years while there’s still a chance to make a difference between success or failure in life.
Working with educators in the Oakland Unified School District, the program will launch a summer school pilot program for 15 students reading below grade level and bring them to proficiency by 4th grade.
Working with Sylvan Learning, Right Path to Learning will offer highly focused, individualized study. Sylvan Learning has a proven system that combines the best of computerized learning with in-person coaching …fantastic, but expensive.
In 10 years, these 3rd graders will be 18-year-old adult members of our community. Let’s get them on the Right Path to productive lives and life-long learning.
Visit www.RightPathtoLearning.org to learn more about this program and it potential.
