Why cant U teach me 2 read?: Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools to the Test
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
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- Title
- Why cant U teach me 2 read?: Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools to the Test
- Author
- Fertig, Beth
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374299056
- ISBN 13
- 9780374299057
Why cant U teach me 2 read? is a vivid, stirring, passionately told story of three students who fought for the right to learn to read, and wononly to discover that their efforts to learn to read had hardly begun.
A person who cannot read cannot confidently ride a city bus, shop, take medicine, or hold a jobmuch less receive e-mail, follow headlines, send text messages, or write a letter to a relative. And yet the best minds of American education cannot agree on the right way for reading to be taught. In fact, they can hardly settle on a common vocabulary to use in talking about reading. As a result, for a quarter of a century American schools have been riven by what educators call the reading wars, and our young people have been caught in the crossfire.
Why cant U teach me 2 read? focuses on three such students. Yamilka, Alejandro, and Antonio all have learning disabilities and all legally challenged the New York City schools for failing to teach them to read by the time they got to high school. When the school systems own hearing officers ruled in the students favor, the city was compelled to pay for the three students, now young adults, to receive intensive private tutoring.
Fertig tells the inspiring, heartbreaking stories of these three young people as they struggle to learn to read before it is too late. At the same time, she tells a story of great change in schools nationwidewhere the crush of standardized tests and the presence of technocrats like New Yorks mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and his schools chancellor, Joel Klein, have energized teachers and parents to question the meaning of education as never before. And she dramatizes the process of learning to read, showing how the act of reading is nothing short of miraculous.
Along the way, Fertig makes clear that the simple question facing students and teachers alikeHow should young people learn to read?opens onto the broader questions of what schools are really for and why so many of Americas schools are faltering.
Why cant U teach me 2 read? is a poignant, vital book for the reader in all of us.
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About the Author
Beth Fertig is a senior reporter for WNYC Radio in New York, the nations largest public radio station, and a regular contributor to National Public Radio. She has won many awards for her reporting, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for her coverage of the New York City public schools. Her reporting on the September 11 attacks won her the affection of countless public radio listeners nationwide. A native New Yorker, she is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and has a masters degree from the University of Chicago.
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