A post by Debbie Meyers and my comments

Here is a well written article by Debbie Meyer with a lot of thought provoking questions to which I believe I have the answers.

95% are instructional casualties (Reid Lyon)

The following is what another educator had said on Children of the Code.

Instructional Casualties:

Dr.G Reid Lyon: When we look at the kids who are having a tough time learning to read and we went through the statistics, thirty-eight percent nationally, dis-aggregate that, seventy percent of kids from poverty and so forth hit the wall.