Letters to the Editor - Jan/Feb 2016
Don’t Blame Teachers for Shortcomings of Teacher Prep Programs
To the Editor:
Worse yet, many teachers who have prepared well do not find support from principals and superintendents. If we can create a culture where well-prepared teachers are appreciated most, more will want to be well prepared.
Debbie Meyer
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
President Arthur Levine, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
To the Editor:
The industrial model has largely contributed to the ever-growing gap in achievement between traditional learners and those with learning disabilities and differences. These students demonstrate an ever growing deficiency year after year in the American school setting, not because they can’t learn, but, because they can’t keep up with the generalized pace of the standard curriculum in the industrial model. Their potential to learn is then underestimated and the formal system gives up on them, typically graduating them without adequate knowledge and skills. All the while, the demands of society are ever expanding. Unless education truly becomes individualized for all students, more and more of those with special needs will become marginalized and struggle unsuccessfully to become productive contributors to our society rather than long term dependents.
Beacon College, in Leesburg, Florida, is the premiere model of an institution of higher learning that focuses on the learner as an individual. The results are outstanding with a graduation rate of 83.3 percent for students who the traditional colleges struggle unsuccessfully to serve. Don’t give up on these learners with special needs. Offer them the right programs, in the right settings, provided by well-prepared and highly motivated faculty and learning specialists. The results will show a high rate of return on investment.
Eileen Marinakis R.N., M.A., A.P.N.
OCEAN VIEW, NEW JERSEY
Dyslexia in the Prison Population
To the Editor:
I have read an abstract of your study online. It could be very useful in my dyslexia research. I have a son with dyslexia and am a grad student at Western New Mexico University. Please send me a copy.
Kim Hilderman
GALLUP, NEW MEXICO
Dyslexia in the Prison Population
To the Editor:
Great job. Please do not let stigma or bad perspectives from pessimist people stop or discourage you to help people. In Tanzania we are working in hard situations, stigma, poverty, and misunderstanding about mental health.
Joyce Bamwenda
Dar Es Salaam, TANZANIA
