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Tuesday 29 April 2014

Parental literacy key to kids’ performance

Mr. Bennett advocates a comprehensive, targeted "reconstruction zone" strategy — expanding educational opportunities for all children in order to address the identified literacy crisis in faltering schools.


This is an interesting proposal, but thinking that we can "fix" children's literacy with interventions solely in the P-12 school system would be a mistake. Children do not exist in isolation. They come from families, and children struggling with literacy most often come from families where the moms and dads themselves have lower literacy levels.


Children will still have problems in school if their parents lack the literacy skills to support their learning.

 


http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1203130-parental-literacy-key-to-kids-performance