I found this video to be very powerful. As a high school teacher, I have seen several students who were well below grade level in their reading skills. I noticed how each day at school becomes an obstacle course. They must carefully get through each day, hoping they are not noticed. their mantra is simply to get by. I suspect many teachers "assist" them by passing them on to the next teacher without addressing their reading problem.
Reading Recovery is a serious attempt to address this problem early on in a student's career. A 75 % success rate is phenomenal. As the teacher from Massachusetts stated "we are saving these students' lives." For some students, having such a program is the difference between perceiving school as a opportunity to explore reality or 12 years in a foreign prison. It is in the community supreme interest that students hold the first view.
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