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Does Your Child Know How to Read?
Help is needed
This article may be completely new news to you (or not), but I have been writing about the status of reading among children in the United States since the early 2000s. I write predominantly in research journals or practitioner-friendly journals in education. Who’s reading these?
It sucks because the research journals are read only by other researchers in the field. Maybe by graduate students who are required to cite research evidence as part of their academic writing. Don’t even get me started on the practitioner journals!
I’ve visited several teacher lounges in schools and I think People’s magazine, Shape, and Better Home and Garden fill up the side tables. I don’t see any practitioner journals. These journals are subscribed to by a select few teachers who pay a membership fee to an organization. I say “subscribe.” I don’t have stats for the read ratio on those articles. Now you wonder why there is a huge research-to-practice gap in education!
And therein lies my frustration. I will save my rant about the useless nature of all the academic writing that goes on by people living in the Ivory Tower (i.e., the PhDs of our country) for another story. Let’s get right to it.
