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Leaving Johnny Behind : Overcoming Barriers to Literacy and Reclaiming At-Risk Readers by Anthony Pedriana; Reid Lyon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In the tradition of Why Johnny Can't Read written by Rudolph Flesch in the 1950s, Leaving Johnny Behind provides a comprehensive examination of the barriers that deny children adequate literacy training. This book describes the obstacles faced by a school principal from Milwaukee's central city when he attempted to implement research-based reading practices. Upon further examination, he discovered that the reading establishment generally rejects the product of legitimate science, choosing instead to engage in a never-ending interfusion of the latest innovations, modifications, and gimmicks. This condition, Anthony Pedriana observes, has a disparate impact on poor and minorities, those who suffer from dyslexia and other forms of reading disability, and those for whom English is a second language.

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Author

Anthony Pedriana; Reid Lyon

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield; Rowman & Littlefield Education

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612820878

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education