Dan Willingham: 'How to Get Your Mind to Read' New York Times

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Dan Willingham: 'How to Get Your Mind to Read' New York Times

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Daniel Willingham's piece in the New York Times emphasises the importance of knowledge for being a good reader:
How to Get Your Mind to Read

By DANIEL T. WILLINGHAM

Nov, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/opin ... pe=article
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.
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