Watkins: To me, reading is one of the great solitary leasures of life before screens were invented. And justa the abilityo get lost the way we get lost now and on the internad, is a but it's different with the booki i want to respond to your, ah, point about hard reading. I do thinktat that theme runs through the book a great deal. Ahyou know, there probably have been, therve been a couple of very good ones, you know, that that i enjoy. But for the most part, i prefer the book.
Doug Lemov of Uncommon School and co-author of Reading Reconsidered talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about reading. Lemov makes the case for the educational importance of critical reading of challenging books and texts. Along the way, he gives listeners some ideas of how to read themselves and gives parents some ideas for how to educate their children.