Mississippi’s only STEM + College Prep charter school reports close to 75% of kindergartners reading at or above benchmark. She is five years old. She just finished kindergarten. And she reads better than the average American fourth grader. A second scholar closed the year reading at a mid-3rd-grade level, scoring in the 98th percentile nationally. Several others finished reading like solid second graders, landing between the 88th and 91st percentile. These are not isolated bright spots. They...