Shut Down Kids: How to prevent kids from shutting down

This book heralds a new line in thinking why the illiteracy rate has been maintained at the same level for decades. It's easy to blame the child as if he were the problem, and not the failure of instruction. There is a basic foundation for teaching that has to be in place for learning to occur. For learning to occur one needs to master the first R - Reading without which the other two R's (wRiting and aRithmetics) are difficult to attain.

The bottom line is that illiteracy has remained the s...