Mikey Bax gets books with his father, Don Bax, at the Largo Library. He switched to a special private school to improve his reading skills. Scientists with the National Institutes of Health found teachers woefully unprepared to offer diverse reading instruction. Instead, teachers tend to cling to one or two teaching techniques, and when those techniques fail, teachers are lost. Florida teachers are no different, FSU's Torgesen and Mathes said.
Local educators agree.
It's much more than just learning and blending sounds. But others think America's so-called literacy crisis is nothing more than political spin meant to make public schools look bad. We're educating more children to higher levels than we ever have. Look at your letters. Nolan jams his pencil between his teeth.