Jennifer Davis was in 3rd grade in her home town of Haverhill, Mass., when she was diagnosed as dyslexic.

But her family was solidly middle-class – her father was a realtor – and soon she had tutors and the extra help she needed to catch up.

“I was lucky enough to have a family with resources,” says Davis, who now heads the Boston-based National Center on Time and Learning. “What we’re trying to do is create those support systems for all children.”

Since she co-founded it in 2007, the center has worked to help schools and school districts deal with two sea changes in the American economy: the change from a farm-and-factory economy to a knowledge economy and growing inequality in which some families can afford the supports Davis had, but more and more cannot.

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