Aus - Alison Clarke: 'Illiteracy, reading wars and policy: Where should the Greens be?'
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 3:10 am
This is a great informative piece by Alison Clarke:
https://greens.org.au/magazine/national ... -greens-beIlliteracy, reading wars and policy: Where should the Greens be?
In 1996, ABS data showed that one in five Australian adults were close to illiterate. 20-odd years on, it doesn't appear things have improved – and it could be down to the politics clouding the way we teach our kids to read.
By Alison Clarke