Ability Quote by Joan Collins

There's a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don't read very much. Nobody really knows what to do about…

— Lloyd Alexander

I think if a youngster leaves school unable to read you're kind of condemning them to a life of poverty and a life of…

— Kate Garraway

I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those…

— Jon Scieszka

“quantitative evidence that teaching children to read from age five is not likely to make that child any more successful at reading than a…

— Terry Marselle

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early…

— Laura Bush

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing…

— Walter Dean Myers

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

— Bob Keeshan

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

— Irwin Redlener

“Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences…

— E.D. Hirsch Jr

I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.

— Alexandra Adornetto

Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.

— Ian Mckellen

Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they…

— Mark Shriver