What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by ‘value’ reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school ‘values’ reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.

What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by ‘value’ reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school ‘values’ reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.

– Kelly Gallagher –

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

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