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You are a district school superintendent. A large fraction of the students coming out of your middle schools arrive at the door of your high schools a year or two behind where they need to be to succeed in the freshman year curriculum. Some are even three or four years behind. Your middle schools are finding that many of the students entering their first-year programs are years behind, too