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Reading by the numbers

June 16, 2008

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WITH ITS walls covered in progress-monitoring graphs and charts showing the distribution of test scores, the principal's office at the John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Brockton has the air of a command center. At the school, where 58 percent of students are from low-income households, hard data determine what each student's day looks like. And a tight focus on ... (Full article: 802 words)

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