School districts around the country have workshopped creative ways to improve reading comprehension among younger and younger students.<\/span>Hugh Sullivan\/Herald & Review\/AP file<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The schools in<\/span> Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual\u2014in fact, it\u2019s almost unheard of. In a country where nearly 40 percent of fourth graders struggle to read at even a basic level, Steubenville has succeeded in teaching virtually all of its students to read well.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to data from the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University, Steubenville has routinely scored in the top 10 percent or better of schools nationwide for third-grade reading, sometimes scoring as high as the top 1 percent.<\/p>\n
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