When Kids Can’t Read: Policy and Practice Mistakes That Make It Worse

This was originally published on Improving Our Schools. Reading Proficiency, Unprepared Students, Untrained Teachers, and Ill-Advised Responses:  A National Dilemma and New National Report Dear Colleagues, Since the early 1990s (and even before), our schools have been laser-focused on students’ proficiency in literacy.  In the early 1990s, many