If educated parents find it difficult to fight a system that doesn’t serve them well, imagine other parents with less schooling. 👇
“I’m a lawyer, and I’m educated,” Walker said. “But when it came to my own child, I felt vulnerable and lost and overwhelmed.” - Symone Walker, co-chair of Arlington’s NAACP education committee
Article by Sarah Carr, journalist for the Hechinger Report
https://hechingerreport.org/naacp-targets-a-new-civil-rights-issue-reading/
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Book recommendation: "If Only I Would Have Known..." (3-in-1 Edition): What I wish the Pediatrician, the Preschool Teacher, and the Librarian would have told me about Language, Literacy, and Dyslexia https://a.co/d/dXEkFkh
The Literacy View is an engaging and inclusive platform encouraging respectful discussion and debate about current issues in education.
Co-hosts Faith Borkowsky and Judy Boksner coach teachers, teach children to read, and hold master's degrees in education.
Our goal is to leave listeners thinking about the issues and drawing their own conclusions.
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