Category Quote by Walter Dean Myers

The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that children don't…

— Michael Rosen

The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it.…

— Jon Scieszka

There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here'…

— James Patterson

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

— George W. Bush

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

— Charlotte Mason

“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

“Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And…

— Daniel Goleman

Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much…

— Jim Trelease

“In other words, in an age of great shifts in education, very little has shifted when it comes to the teaching of adolescent readers.…

— Kelly Gallagher

We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids…

— Howard Gardner

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really…

— James Patterson