Readicide Gallagher Kelly
Readicide Gallagher Kelly Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Educators are familiar with many of…
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Readicide Gallagher Kelly
Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline--poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment. Reading is dying in our schools.
In Readicide, Gallagher argues that American schools are actively (though unwittingly) furthering the decline of reading. In this provocative book Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It, author and teacher Kelly Gallagher suggests it is time to recognize a new and significant contributor to the death of reading: our schools. Specifically, he contends that the standard instructional practices used in most schools are killing reading by:Valuing standardized