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Article: Get ready by reading

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October 23, 1995
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Read Boston, the child literacy campaign announced last week by Mayor Menino, is blessedly free of educational cant. Instead, it begins with a message to parents that children's literature is flat-out crucial to a youngster's success.

Before they reach toddler age, children should be read to and learn to appreciate books. Parents who fail to read to their youngsters are placing them on a perilous track of remediation, alienation and failure. In Boston's public schools, half of all third-graders read below grade level. School officials, the Boston Compact and university researchers vow to undo that unnerving trend in 10 years. They deserve the support of every adult in Boston with the ...

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