The last chapter provides a summary of Readicide. This book does a good job trying to improve reading problems in our schools. One of the ways to improve is te 50/50 approach, this is a way to improve reading involvement in the classroom. I have only one problem with the 50/50 approach. I believe that the teachers must focus on the academic reader only. Many educators will disagree with me but I think no matter what you do as a teacher you will not get may student to be recreational readers.
In closing, we can not make comparison to Finland or any other country. We need to focus on the factors that affect our own students. the American education system needs to come up with their own way to improve literacy and not try to model changes after any other countries.
