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Why Johnny will never learn to read if teachers aren’t properly trained!

I’m just re-reading Rudolph Flesch’s Why Johnny Can’t Read (1955) and reminding myself why it is still after all this time such a fantastic book. Flesch wrote it because of the failure of the school system in the USA to teach so many children to read and spell. Reading, Flesch insisted, was not being taught… Continue reading Why Johnny will never learn to read if teachers aren’t properly trained!

Sir Mike Rake · Sunday Times · The Telegraph

Illiteracy – the blight on the UK economy.

After spending a huge amount of time training teachers and teaching on a children’s literature course for the OU, I’m back.The Sunday Times (27 06 10) and the Telegraph yesterday reported the chairman of BT Sir Mike Rake as saying that around a quarter of applicants (six out of twenty-six thousand applicants) for places on… Continue reading Illiteracy – the blight on the UK economy.