{"product_id":"why-cant-u-teach-me-2-read-three-students-and-a-mayor-put-our-schools-to-the-test","title":"Why cant U teach me 2 read?: Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools to the Test","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy cant U teach me 2 read? is a vivid  stirring  passionately told story of three students who fought for the right to learn to read  and wononly to discover that their efforts to learn to read had hardly begun.  A person who cannot read cannot confidently ride a city bus  shop  take medicine  or hold a jobmuch less receive e-mail  follow headlines  send text messages  or write a letter to a relative. And yet the best minds of American education cannot agree on the right way for reading to be taught. In fact  they can hardly settle on a common vocabulary to use in talking about reading. As a result  for a quarter of a century American schools have been riven by what educators call the reading wars  and our young people have been caught in the crossfire.  Why cant U teach me 2 read? focuses on three such students. Yamilka  Alejandro  and Antonio all have learning disabilities and all legally challenged the New York City schools for failing to teach them to read by the time they got to high school. When the school systems own hearing officers ruled in the students favor  the city was compelled to pay for the three students  now young adults  to receive intensive private tutoring.  Fertig tells the inspiring  heartbreaking stories of these three young people as they struggle to learn to read before it is too late. At the same time  she tells a story of great change in schools nationwidewhere the crush of standardized tests and the presence of technocrats like New Yorks mayor  Michael Bloomberg  and his schools chancellor  Joel Klein  have energized teachers and parents to question the meaning of education as never before. And she dramatizes the process of learning to read  showing how the act of reading is nothing short of miraculous.  Along the way  Fertig makes clear that the simple question facing students and teachers alikeHow should young people learn to read?opens onto the broader questions of what schools are really for and why so many of Americas schools are faltering.  Why cant U teach me 2 read? is a poignant  vital book for the reader in all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986211663925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374299056","price":23.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374299057.jpg?v=1770892465","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/why-cant-u-teach-me-2-read-three-students-and-a-mayor-put-our-schools-to-the-test","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}