Reading Scores Increase and Hidden Talents Unveiled in the City
Reading Scores Increase and Hidden Talents Unveiled in the City
2 Pages©2012 Becaid LLC Reading Scores Increase and Hidden Talents Unveiled in the City Difficult Circumstances Brooklyn’s Elijah Stroud Elementary School, PS 316 is a neighborhood school serving a student body that is high-poverty (95% participate in the Free/Reduced Price Lunch Program) and diverse (88% African American, 7% Hispanic). In 2011, just 26% of grade 3 students scored proficient in Language Arts, and just 42% in math. “I was really searching for a program that could help my students cognitively, and I’ve been looking for a long time,” said principal Olga Maluf, “and I was so happy when I found C8 Sciences. It was like they designed the exact program I’d been dreaming about.” PS 316 began implementing the program in March of 2012, with all students in g
