Speed Reading Claims and Critics Highlight Debate
New York AP reports on a Wilmington teen who reads at 10,000 to 12,000 wpm after a course, while the average adult reads at about 250 wpm. Experts discuss mechanics from metronoscopes to eye motion. differing claims and limits spark ongoing debate among educators, authors, and institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Henshaw
New York
Bob Darling
Wilmington
Del
Young Darling
Lawrence Durrell
Reading and Sd Center
Seiu
New York University
Reading Institute
Panes
Reading Dynamics, Inc
Washington
Evelyn N. Wood
Utah
Talmadge
Georgia
Ken McCormick
Doubleday Publishing House
Keith Norman
Western Electric
Louis Braun
Bronxville, N. Y
Henry I. Schneer
Russia
Thomas Wolfe
Harvard
Wolfe
Baylor Literacy Center Tackles World Illiteracy
Baylor University hosts the first literacy center in the United States drawing visitors from Malaysia Cambodia Indonesia Jordan Hong Kong Tanganyika India and across the U.S. to share illiteracy solutions. It highlights cases of nonreaders from a Dallas painter to a Sunday school attendee and discusses speed reading's role, leaders, and critics.
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U. Senators
Virginia Military Institute
Highland Park
Mich
United States
Baylor University
Richard ‘Cortright
Antil
Malaya
Cambodia
Indonesia
Jordan
Hong Kong
Tanganyika
India
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DR. Taylor
William Schail
Reading Laboratory, Inc
Schaul
Paul B. Panes
Judith Lefkowitz
Baylor Literacy Center
Waco
Tex
The
Dallas
Pontiac
Beck
Talbert
Central Ave
Alfred Angelo
McAlpin
Ridal
Angelo
Bouffant