One of the underlying factors behind the nation’s education crisis is the low levels of reading comprehension among students. This is especially tru for young men of all racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds. Thanks to poor reading instruction, the lack of intensive reading remediation and abysmal curricula, young men fall behind and end up being overdiagnosed as special ed cases. The ultomate result: Academic failure. And yet the nation is just beginning to address this issue.
George Mason University professor William Brozo, one of the few studying this crisis, takes time in this video to explain some other factors behind low reading comprehension among young men. Watch, listen, consider and take action.
