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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers | At a Loss for Words | APM Reports

apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

• education, tag
• reading, tag
• linguistics, tag
• language, tag
• literacy, tag
• ·4 years ago

Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2019/04/27/world/asia/south-korea-school-grandmothers.html

• literacy, tag
• schools, tag
• birthrate, tag
• education, tag
• ·4 years ago

Andika

software.sil.org/andika/

A family designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of beginning readers

• fonts, tag
• reading, tag
• literacy, tag
• dyslexia, tag
• typeface_design, tag
• children, tag
• unicode, tag
• ·5 years ago

The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think

nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

• usability, tag
• design, tag
• UX, tag
• demographics, tag
• skills, tag
• computer, tag
• research, tag
• literacy, tag
• ·7 years ago

Andika

scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php

A sans serif font designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of beginning readers. The focus is on clear, easy-to-perceive letterforms that will not be readily confused with one another.

• typography, tag
• typeface, tag
• literacy, tag
• learning, tag
• reading, tag
• free_font, tag
• ·9 years ago