Right To Read is a 501(c)(3)non-profit organization providing no-cost reading support to students in kindergarten through third grade in under-resourced communities.
FACTS AND FIGURES
Only 37% of 4th-grade students nationwide are proficient in reading, making them more lilely to experience poverty, school drop out, and academic failure.
Illiteracy has a direct correlation with the American prison population as 3 out of 5 prison inmates can't read.
Children who are not reading on grade level by the end of 3rd grade have a 1 in 8 chance of catching up and are 4x more likely to drop out of school.
88% of struggling readers in third grade did not graduate from high school. Third-grade reading proficiency is a key predictor of high school graduation.
One out of five students has a language-based learning disability. Dyslexia is the most common learning-based disability not diagnosed in the public school system.