Books Quote by Mike Schmoker

“America’s Founders understood literacy as a prerequisite for freedom and our form of self-government. Once we know how to read, what we read matters.…

— Ben Sasse

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

— George W. Bush

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

— Robert Hass

“Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.”

— Taylor Ellwood

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

— David Warlick

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might…

— Hannah More

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is…

— Maryanne Wolf

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

— Narendra Modi

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically…

— Maryanne Wolf

“With such a complicated and crucial part of a child's education in jeopardy, there are many forces at work -- a sort of conspiracy…

— Rafe Esquith

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

— Walter Dean Myers

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try…

— Alexandra Petri