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TEACHER VOICE: College students who lack basic skills can learn to love reading and writing

The Hechinger Report

And even though they were high school graduates, many were only borderline literate. In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5 percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. My students tended to be motivated; otherwise, they wouldn’t have been in college at all.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class.