Improve Reading? Get Rid of Reading Comprehension in Schools

Translated and edited by Mirjam Neelen & Paul A. Kirschner

This article was originally written by Erik Meester and Martin Bootsma and published as an education blog in the Dutch newspaper NRC. 

Erik Meester is a teacher and educational developer in the Pedagogical Sciences of Primary Education program at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Martin Bootsma is a team leader and teacher at the Alan Turingschool in Amsterdam.

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