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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Students at St. David School District read during class. St. David students would be amongst other Cochise County students to utilize literacy technology.

Cochise County Schools hope to increase literacy through mobile app

Clara Lovell November 7, 2018

Cochise County schools are planning to implement a district-wide English and Spanish literacy curriculum through smartphones, tablets and computers. They believe this will ease low literacy rates in...

A group of children join together for story time at the Tent for Tots booth at the Tucson Festival of Books. (Photo by: Gloria Knott/Arizona Sonora News Service)

70 percent of 4th-graders don’t read proficiently — what’s the problem?

Gloria Knott April 5, 2018

Seventy. That’s the percentage of fourth graders in Arizona who don’t read proficiently. If that isn’t alarming enough, a whopping 56 percent of third-graders failed the reading portion of...

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