Why Kids Can''t Read - Continuing to Challenge the Status Quo in Education

This book takes the reader step-by-step through an understanding of the research on reading and ways in which a single, determined person can make a difference in the learning ability of every student in our nation's schools.

List of contents

Foreword - Carol Hampton Rasco
Preface - Richard W. Riley
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Phyllis Blaunstein, Reid Lyon, and Patrick Riccards
Part I: Beating the Odds
1 The Crisis in Our Classrooms - Phyllis Blaunstein, Reid Lyon, and Patrick Riccards
2 Armed With the Facts: The Science of Reading and Its Implications for Teaching - Sally E. Shaywitz, MD, and Bennett A. Shaywitz, MD
3 I Could Not Read Until I Was 30 Years Old - Diane Badgley Lyon
4 A Parent's Journey - Teresa Ankney
5 A Parent's Pressure Cooker - Norma Garza
Part II: Changing the Odds
6 When a Whole State Fails to Measure Up: One Grandmother's Fight - Marion Joseph
7 Pulling Back the Curtain: Successfully Working With the Media - Patrick Riccards
8 You Can Do It! How to Change Laws to Better Educate Children - Richard Long
9 Johnson Elementary School: A Transformed School - Benjamin T. Sayeski
10 The Last Word - Phyllis Blaunstein, Reid Lyon, and Patrick Riccards
Appendixes
A What Is Scientifically Based Reading Research?
B How Do I Know a Good Early Reading Program When I See One? - Laura Bush
C Advice to a Teacher of Beginning Reading - Sara M. Porter
D Tools for Parents - Patrick Riccards
E Common Core State Standards
Glossary
Resources
References
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Patrick R. Riccards; Phyllis Blaunstein and Reid Lyon

Summary

This book takes the reader step-by-step through an understanding of the research on reading and ways in which a single, determined person can make a difference in the learning ability of every student in our nation's schools.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick R. Blaunstein Riccards
• Assisted by: Phyllis Blaunstein (Editor), Blaunstein Phyllis (Editor), Reid Lyon (Editor), Lyon Reid (Editor), Patrick R. Riccards (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781475808759
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-0875-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; English, EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Educational: English language: reading & writing skills, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General