70 Year Magazine Archive

Psychology—or Poor Teaching?

by Abe Kalish

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The author’s observation of a schoolroom overcrowded but quiet seems to prove that discipline is the key to the reading problems of children

Can the widespread inability of public school children to read be explained by psychology? Recently, the director of a remedial education center in the City of Washington listed “six broad types of learning blocks that often appear in children of average or above-average intelligence.”

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