What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.

Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it (ed. Stenhouse Publishers, 2009) - ISBN: 9781571107800