The message is clear...

...and remarkably simple, understand the nature of what you're teaching, and understand the nature of the learner, so that you can bring the two together as easily and quickly as possible.

Teachers and parents know that education is missing the mark. The student's day is filled with worksheets and scripted lessons, with little regard to what is begin taught, why it's being taught, or to whom it's being taught. The harsh knowledge that what has been tried has failed, has been met with an embarrassing potpourri of eclecticism, the inevitable result of the pendulum swing between Phonics and Whole Language, New Math and real math (the list goes on) all combined with a troubling shift of blame to the student.

Essential Education is a reaction to these worrying times. It is the simple, but rigourous notion that in educating a child, consider only the essence of what you want to teach - the concepts, skills and information - and the essence (the nature) of the learner.

With specialized training in Learning Theory, Child Development, and Environmental Design and Lesson Development, Read America Associates are prepared to meet a broad range of needs impacting your child's overall success. From in-home environmental design of the 'learning landscape' development of special lessons, Read America Associates have the training needed to enhance your child's learning experience and provide maximum skill transer beyond the lesson, behond home, into the classroom and into life.