Why Johnny Can’t Read

Many learned books and papers have been written these last several years on the appalling inability of our public- education system to teach our children to read their own language. It seems that the more we spend building bigger and more luxurious schools and paying higher and higher salaries to teachers and administrators, the less Johnny can read.

Parents are disgusted with this puzzle and are voting down, all over the nation, requests for more money for schools. Yet they are very seldom aware of a major reason why youngsters can pass through the primary system and even graduate from high school without the ability to read.

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Vrest Orton

Many learned books and papers have been written these last several years on the appalling inability of our public- education system to teach our children to read their own language. It seems that the more we spend building bigger and more luxurious schools and paying higher and higher salaries to teachers and administrators, the less Johnny can read.

Parents are disgusted with this puzzle and are voting down, all over the nation, requests for more money for schools. Yet they are very seldom aware of a major reason why youngsters can pass through the primary system and even graduate from high school without the ability to read.