81.   Juan thrives in the militarylike atmosphere, learning to read at college level and eventually being chosen as graduation speaker.

82.   Kenneth Goodman, professor of reading at the University of Arizona, says decoding skills should be taught as one of many strategies.

83.   Mississippi third-graders read at slightly lower levels than the national norm.

84.   Most people read at the same rate they talk.

85.   More than half of the third-grade students read at a sixth-grade level.

86.   Most will be able to read at fourth- to sixth-grade levels, sufficient for many kinds of work.

87.   Naomi Carroll, who taught Lockett in a special education class at Mitchell-Baker High School, says Lockett reads at a third-grade level.

88.   Nearly half are on welfare and less than half read at better than an eighth-grade level.

89.   Most of the freshmen and sophomores he teaches read at a sixth-grade level.

90.   Olinda Losada, whose brother and boyfriend at the time were guerrillas, learned to read at Marquetalia and sewed clothes for the rebels.