Dr. Elaine Heffner: ‘New’ ideas about reading failures

Everything old is new again. Old ideas with a new look certainly seem to be making an appearance in theories related to child-rearing and education. The latest candidates in that regard are the “new” ideas about reading failure and methods of teaching children to read.Recent national test scores showing that only a third of American students wereproficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and bad ones, haveprompted some educators to revisit the […]  » Read More