Forty-two percent are not necessarily ready to tackle college.

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

We need our best teachers working with our most at-risk. Right now it's often the reverse.

Some schools are looking at literacy coaches. Other schools are teaching reading strategy to teachers. High schools don't teach the skill of reading.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.