Parents can’t afford to leave the most important part of their children’s education to schools that are failing to teach more than half of their beginning readers to read.
If I had to choose the most annoying thing about teaching in a U.S. school or university, it would be the practice of requiring teachers to provide “make-up work” for students who miss a scheduled lesson.
The current official educational position about reading is that children need to be carefully kept to books that meet certain “readability†levels.The following comment from