Did you know that 3,000 students drop out of school each day? Or that a Justice Department study found a direct link between the inability to read and juvenile delinquency? Dr. Joseph Lockavitch will tell your audience that our schools are overflowing with angry, hostile kids, most of whom can’t read; and despite the seriousness of this widespread social problem, all frustrated teachers and parents seem capable of doing is pointing fingers at students and each other.
Invite Dr. Lockavitch on air to explain what we must do to diffuse the ticking teenage time bomb we’re sitting on. He’s made it his mission over the last 30 years to dispel the myths of the non-reader and rescue the bottom of the bottom students. While other people try to forget these kids — or write them off — he actually seeks them out and shows them that they can succeed when everyone else has given up on them!
This Expert Says It’s Time We Stopped Making Excuses for Why Students Don’t Learn to Read!
Your phone lines will light up as he discusses:
• Why the “one size fits all” mentality of today’s education system does not work.
• How to save taxpayers millions of dollars.
• The one word that will dramatically improve reading comprehension.
• The most important teaching practice NOT being taught in our classrooms.
• Why we should all be concerned with this potentiallyexplosive problem.
• What parents can do if their child has been “labeled” and is just being “warehoused” by the public school system.
• That up to 30% of school age students might be “phonetically deaf.”
CREDENTIALS: Dr. Joseph Lockavitch is a former classroom teacher, school psychologist, university professor, and special education director. As the author of over a dozen published research articles, Dr. Lockavitch has spent the past thirty years training tens of thousands of teachers, parents and administrators on how to meet the unique needs of America’s non-readers. Featured on the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and frequently mentioned on national radio shows, Dr. Lockavitch holds a Doctorate of Education from Boston University. A noted and passionate speaker, he is the president of Failure Free Reading, an educational publishing and software development firm. He is also the author of the newly released book THE FAILURE FREE READING METHODOLOGY — New Hope for Non-Readers.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS: What are the Three Bad R’s in education? How can you help a child in 30 minutes? How does not being able to read affect self-esteem?
AVAILABILITY: North Carolina, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
CONTACT: Tess Ward, tess.ward@failurefree.com (980) 721-1056 (NC)
