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StriveTogether's Student Roadmap to Success plots the course of a student’s journey from cradle to career. The StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network identified six core outcome areas that are most critical for the educational success of every child.
All of our efforts focus on these cradle-to-career outcomes:
Kindergarten readiness
Kindergarten readiness is closely linked to future academic achievement and life success. Children develop fundamental skills and responses in early childhood that build strong foundations for reading, counting and social interactions. As a child’s kindergarten readiness scores improve, studies show that third-grade reading and math scores rise accordingly.
Early grade reading
Literacy is critical to a child’s academic success, and early grade reading is particularly crucial. Children in the early grades begin to transition from learning to read to reading to learn. Reading at grade level is one of the strongest predictors of later success in school, with data showing that disparities in literacy during the early grades are linked to persistent achievement gaps.