The “Teaching Reading” report that is the basis for the claim that Australia’s teacher training is abysmal shows the opposite: Reading scores of 14-year-olds in Australia have remained ...

The two hours I had in the reading room were obviously not enough to read all the documents. Yet afterwards I realised that nothing I had read would make me rethink any of my previous criticisms ...

As Will writes, in what will probably be the epigram that long outlives this book: Reading isn't the opposite of doing; it's the opposite of dying.