Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it
- ISBN-10
- 1571107800
- ISBN-13
- 9781571107800
- Category
- Literacy
- Pages
- 150
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stenhouse Publishers
- Author
- Kelly Gallagher
Description
Argues that the decline in reading by children in the United States is furthered by schools by focusing on test-taking and focusing solely on academic texts with guidance for educators on how to conteract this trend.
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