Current CASBS Fellow Maryanne Wolf is interviewed in Smithsonian Magazine about the “black hole of American education” – the fourth grade.
In an article titled Are Tablets the Way Out of Child Illiteracy? Wolf explains: “If the kids are not fluent —if they don’t have that repertoire of what the English language demands, or the vocabulary to correspond to what they read— they are going to miss the whole boat of the education system.”