Reading Recovery a 'failed program'

By Jewel Topsfield
Updated September 3 2014 - 8:08am, first published 7:54am
'We would say Reading Recovery is a wait-to-fail program'. Photo: Lee Besford
'We would say Reading Recovery is a wait-to-fail program'. Photo: Lee Besford

The remedial reading program Reading Recovery has failed in New Zealand and needs to be replaced with one that targets children most at risk of failing to learn to read, according to visiting academics.

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