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Changing How We Teach Changing How We Teach In Escambia county of North West Florida the results of Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) for 2004 reveal that our students continue to fail to meet the grade when it comes to reading. Our education system does not prepare our students well enough to graduate from high school and being prepared for college or being able to truly function in the work force is rare. Our system doesn’t work and we need to change it. This year only 29% of ninth grade and 26% of tenth grade students were reading on grade level. Florida state law requires a student to pass the FCAT in 10th grade, this is achieved by getting a score of 3 on a scale of 1-5, in order to graduate and receive a diploma. About 32% of Florida freshmen fail to earn a diploma four years later (LaCoste, Crisis in the classrooms). Nearly 70% of new enrollments at the local community college require reading remediation classes before they can even begin college-courses (LaCoste, Everyone’s problem). Several factors have contributed to this problem; lack of required reading classes beyond elementary school (LaCoste, Behind the crisis…), lack of a consistent and grade, school, reading, level, teachers, students, system, problem, even, education, lacoste, florida, elementary, need, lack, graduate, getting, degree, classes, work, test, summer, student, solution, score, require, prepared, place, people, leaves, higher, high, fcat, fail, county