Dan Willingham: 'How to Get Your Mind to Read' New York Times
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:21 pm
Daniel Willingham's piece in the New York Times emphasises the importance of knowledge for being a good reader:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/opin ... pe=articleHow to Get Your Mind to Read
By DANIEL T. WILLINGHAM
Nov, 2017
Don’t blame the internet, or smartphones, or fake news for Americans’ poor reading. Blame ignorance. Turning the tide will require profound changes in how reading is taught, in standardized testing and in school curriculums. Underlying all these changes must be a better understanding of how the mind comprehends what it reads.