From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
On October 11, 2011, Change.org noted;
According to numbers recently released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 2010, 16.2 million children lived in households that struggled to afford food, skipped meals or ate inadequate diets due to a lack of money and resources. That is one in every five children in America who are faced with hunger.
According to Dr. Marcus D. Pohlmann of Rhodes College: Read more...
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A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
To prevent poverty, to give children a decent chance to earn a good living, and to ensure national security, America must ensure that all children—regardless of disability or family income—succeed educationally. If America does not, it will unknowingly promote poverty, crime, mental illness, mass anger, and violence. It will continue to lose its ability to compete with nations whose budgets consistently support educational excellence.
America’s hollow slogans, destructive testing policies, false accountability, teacher-bashing, and savage budget cuts are not commitments to educational quality. They’re abandonment. As Nicholas Kristoff (2011) recently wrote: Read more...
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From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
In a GREAT column, Charles M. Blow quoted the late James Baldwin: “Them That’s Not Shall Lose.” Blow commented:
I’ve always considered that sentence in the context of the extreme psychological toll of poverty…. Poverty is brutal, consuming and unforgiving. It strikes at the soul. You defend yourself with hope, hard work and, for some, a helping hand. But these weapons grow dull in an economy on the verge of atrophy, in a job market tilting ever more toward the top and in a political environment that would sacrifice the weak to the wealthy. Read more...
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Help Launch The National “Read To Kids” Campaign: Vote On the Web
In the U.S. today, a stark disparity exists between the reading abilities of low-income and higher-income children. Only 50% of low-income 4th graders read at or above the basic level according to the Department of Education’s 2007 Nation’s Report Card. The implications of the growing literacy gap extend beyond the walls of our homes and our classrooms. According to Dr. G. Reid Lyon, Chief of Child Development and Behavior at the National Institute of Health, “surveys of adolescents and young adults with criminal records indicate that at least half have reading difficulties, and in some states the size of prisons a decade in the future is predicted by fourth grade reading failure rates.” Read more...
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