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- How It Feels To Be Javion: 16 And Struggling To Read In Chicago Public Schools 12/14/2018How Javion became a high school student reading at the second-grade level is impossible to say for sure. But multiple forces play a role: Intergenerational poverty and violence abetted by segregation and disinvestment that have strangled opportunities for black families in neighborhoods on the South and West Sides. Underperforming schools concentrated in underserved communities. A […]Reading Rockets