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Reading difficulty is a teaching problem not an intelligence problem

Feb 04, 2016 | Category: literacy
Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don’t have to go to school to learn how to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personal...

How do you get students to read for pleasure?

Jul 11, 2015 | Category: reading
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."Marcel ProustReading seems to make us smarter. Here's Keith Stanovich explaining why:https://www.y...

Reading ability: nature or nurture?

Jul 14, 2014 | Category: literacy
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.Matthew, 13:12 The Matthew Effect has become somethi...