One in three students never achieve academic literacy.

Read that again. One in three. Why?

There is a widespread, overlooked issue facing many classrooms today: how do we teach students how to listen, read, and write? Every day in classrooms across the country, teachers are trying to fill a gap that has never been properly addressed within the education system.

That gap is a lack of knowledge about how to learn.

Teaching the fundamentals of a subject is straightforward; teaching how to effectively learn the material is not. Mastering the skill of comprehension is the key to successful learning.

This critical issue introduces several problems in a classroom:

• it prevents teachers from fully engaging with their students in deeper, meaningful learning.
• it creates a group of students in every classroom that chronically underperform – and develop a sense of helplessness that undermines them.
• it isolates another group of students at a level of competence below the performance threshold they need to be at to reach their goals.
• it causes academic illiteracy which leads to the loss of the stability and productivity of both the individual and society at large.

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So… what is our solution?