Paula Simons: Children's literacy lessons seem hard to learn

New academic research from the University of Alberta and McGill University has found — wait for it — that if you actually take the time to teach children to learn to read, they learn to read.
Shocking, isn’t it?
I’m sorry. That sounds a bit snarky.
And I’m not making fun of the researchers. Their findings are critically important. I’m just frustrated that we’re still having to “prove” and explain this pretty basic fact in late 2017.
This new