Our future depends on how well our children are taught today. One US educator, Linda Katz believes that there are many children left behind who are ill-prepared in school to meet the challenges of the future, and she wants something done about it.
She presents a dire picture of the literacy levels in US Schools, is your school at risk?
"Dire" is one adjective that Linda Katz, founder and executive director of Children's Literacy Initiative (CLI), uses to describe the U.S. education system, which is leaving an increasingly high number of children without adequate reading and writing skills. For more than 20 years, CLI has been working with school systems across the country to overhaul how teachers are trained, hired and mentored. In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Katz discusses not only why classroom teaching is broken and what can be done about it, but also the secret to helping kids learn to love reading.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2459
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