My experience with kids from disadvantaged backgrounds
supports this kind of help. Really, what
SRA is doing is proving the kind of financial, social, and emotional support
that loving, upper-class families provide for their children.
But my experience also suggests that this kind of help is
not enough. The underlying problem for
most of these students is an academic one:
they don't have the skills to succeed in college courses. Making a huge effort, early on in these
children's lives, to bring them to a love and habit of reading will help ensure
they have the academic credentials to take advantage of the SRA help.
Avid readers read better, write better, concentrate better,
and have wider frames of reference that make all learning easier.
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