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11: The Outlier
Season 1 · Episode 11

11: The Outlier

Sold a Story

February 20, 202531m 4s

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Show Notes

There’s a school district in eastern Ohio where virtually all the students become good readers by the time they finish third grade. Many of the wealthiest places in the country can’t even say that. And Steubenville is a Rust Belt town where the state considers almost all the students “economically disadvantaged.” How did they do it?


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