“If we want [children] to graduate high school and go to college, we need to have them reading at grade level by third grade. That’s not a magical number. It’s what the data tells us…. We can’t wait for the third grade MCAS scores to tell us whether a child is on track or not. In fact, waiting for kindergarten is too late.”
John Bissell, Greylock Federal Credit Union, Berkshire Eagle, February 21, 2012