Demystifying Reading
It’s not news that many students are showing up at college or university underprepared for the kind of reading their professors expect of them. There are myriad causes — loosing out on reading instruction during Covid, for example, and changes to high school curricula that have students read short excerpts from texts instead of full-length books. (Such changes are generally imposed from the outside, and not the choice of high school teachers.) It is easy, and thoroughly understandable, to throw…