If you can't read in the fourth grade, by the fourth grade you have a 70% chance of being on welfare or going to prison. Think of that for a minute. There are states that use fourth grade reading rates to predict their prison populations in the future. Now if that isn't the biggest I give up on neighborhoods, communities and people I've ever heard in my life. I can't find one. (11:15–11:23)
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Asserts that some states use fourth-grade reading proficiency to forecast future prison populations.
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