NPR – Elissa Nadworny
“It’s one of the most basic things in education: seeing the board. Research has shown, over and over again, that if you can’t see, you’re going to have an awfully hard time in school. And yet too often this simple issue gets overlooked. Just this year, research showed that children with a significant vision problem during the pre-school years perform significantly worse on tests of early literacy. And that poor performance early on affects their reading scores when they reach the third grade, says Kira Baldonado, director of the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health. Her organization is out with a new report today that looks at children’s vision screening across the country. We pulled the numbers and created a state-by-state breakdown — and a look at who those vision tests are reaching.”(more)