Twilight is to College Bound Kids What Twinkies are to Marathoners
April 3, 2012 — pwceducationreform“Preparing them for a college education with “Twilight” is like preparing a marathoner with Twinkies.”
This line is from Alexander Nazaryan in her article, “Against Captain Underpants: How we are raising a generation of illiterates”, published in the NY Daily News. It comes just days after an op-ed by Dr Sandra Stotsky in Bloomberg stating that“New Reading Teachers Should Pass a Reading Test“.
Why so much interest in reading proficiency? Perhaps it’s because of a recent study demonstrating that the average American High School student reads at a 5th grade level.
“The republic cannot flourish in the 21st century, no matter how much time English or reading teachers spend teaching ‘21st