Education Dive – Tara García Mathewson
“There are kids in every elementary classroom who don’t like to read. It’s easy to say they don’t like to learn or they’re lazy. But Jonathan Green, director of The Hamilton School at Wheeler, a school-within-a-school for students with language-based learning differences, says those assumptions are unlikely to be accurate. “The idea of unmotivated kids is a myth,” Green said. “If you see a kid who doesn’t want to learn, there’s a reason for it. Let’s find out what that is.” Oftentimes, it’s dyslexia.”(more)