Reading is the most important tool for education, yet two decades of applications from research have had no effect on the level of reading skills attained in school. While I was teaching my English classes for middle and high school students, I was always aware of my "invisible partners;" that is, parents school administrators, other educators, and yes, the taxpaying citizen who footed the bill. I knew that these "partners" knew very little about what occurred in the classroom and yet they had a big effect of what I could accomplish. I knew they shared an interest in my more...
