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Not reading the writing on the wall
Many years ago I went on CFRB radio talking about problems with teaching reading and trying to recruit people to join our fight. I was surprised when every single telephone call (there were at least 50 of them) were from parents looking for advice on how they could teach their own kids to read.
Today, Doretta went on CFRB talking about problems with teaching reading and trying to recruit people to join our fight, and lo and behold exactly the same thing. But at least now we can offer help - our Stairway to Reading remedial reading program. As soon as Doretta went off the air, our Stairway to Reading registrations exploded.
This doesn’t make any sense. Taught properly, virtually every child can learn to be a competent reader. See, for example, this interview with Dr. Reid Lyon, the former Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institute of Health. There is no excuse for schools that don’t teach their students to read, and it is a scandal that nothing has changed in 20 years.