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Article: It's tough being 9: Educators puzzle over why some students slump in fourth grade.
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- The Times-News (Twin Falls, ID)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2007
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Byline: Steve Crump
Mar. 11--TWIN FALLS -- Eric Cartman and his "South Park" buddies hated fourth grade so much that they commissioned the science geeks in their class to build a time machine so they could go back to third grade.
Their teacher went, too.
So what's so bad about being 9 years old? Educators around the country are wondering.
"The fourth-grade slump," as Newsweek magazine calls it, can strike students between the second and fifth grades. The trend is marked by declining interest in reading and a gradual disengagement from school.
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, kids' reading scores ...
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