To the editor: Elevating college students who do effectively on studying assessments is just not the identical factor as elevating college students who prefer to learn (“The nation’s students are deep in a reading recession. Here’s how L.A. and California fit in,” Could 13). Actually, it’s fairly the other. We have now a whole era of scholars who’ve come to imagine that the explanation to learn is to reply the trainer’s questions, to carry out effectively on terrible standardized exams.
Faculties actively work to make children hate studying, after which when their college students carry out poorly on assessments, we blame the youngsters. The research is evident: Youngsters who learn essentially the most learn the most effective, so shouldn’t we shift classroom practices by first asking what we are able to do to make children love studying? The solutions to this query are the place significant reform lies.
Kelly Gallagher, Santa Ana
This author is the writer of “Readicide: How Faculties Are Killing Studying and What You Can Do About It.”
