I'm not sure I 100% agree with some of the opinions he expresses at the start of the piece stating that middle class parents push kids into summer classes while poor kids get little to no support. I do feel that kids with parents who are involved in their lives and encourage (force, cajole, bribe, or on some other way get them to) read over the summer do have an advantage.
This isn't a new thought on this blog. But check out this article to get yet another take on it and an interesting list of great summer reads for both kids and parents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05kristof.html?_r=2
**Just a note: Ialso have some issues with his order of difficulty. The level of a book has as much to do with its content and emotional impact as it does with # of words on a page and difficulty of vocabulary.
Also check out Nicholas Kristof's blog at
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/ for more of his thoughts and reader feedback.
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