Something is rotten in the state of American education.
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Dr. Ellen Burns Hurst, author of Why Can’t My Daughter Read? and Why Can't My Son Read? She holds a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy and has spent a career focused on cutting edge reading interventions. Dr. Hurst continues to focus on her passion of changing the reading lives of children and adults through research presentations at national and international literacy conferences. She is an experienced reading/intervention specialist in public and private schools. Currently, she in engaged in her private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. Her past university teaching assignments focused on assessment in the early childhood classroom for undergraduates as well as literacy assessment and linguistic components of literacy at the graduate level. Visit Dr. Hurst's new global contributions at https://myedexpert.com/vendor/Ehurst/ and learn more at https://whycantmydaughterread.com/
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Today boys are far less likely than girls to pursue education beyond high school.
According to statistics, up to 10 million children in the United States have some form of reading disability.