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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!