Boston Collegiate Charter School: For Adolescents Struggling With Reading, It’s Not Too Late To Intervene
In schools across the country, about one-third of students are behind grade level in reading. Even in Massachusetts, which consistently ranks at the top of various education metrics, this crisis plagues students and educators. While there have always been students who struggle, the COVID-19 pandemic widened existing gaps and made it harder for many to catch up.
We saw this play out at Boston Collegiate Charter School, which serves a socio-economically and racially diverse population of 700 students in grades 5 through 12, as more and more students struggled to stay afloat in their English Language Arts classes. Many students were entering our school without foundational reading skills, and our typical approaches — leveraging rigorous curriculum and scaffolding grade-level texts — weren’t yielding the usual results.
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