Learning-support centres for children with dyslexia and other learning difficulties, with trained teachers and a published method

A first step

Ask 3 school principals in your town how many children in each class struggle to read or count in a way tuition has not fixed. Find one teacher trained to support children with dyslexia, write down the method they use, and run a 6-week after-school group for 5 children whose parents pay a fee. Parents who see progress and sign up for a second term are the proof.

Who pays first

A parent whose child is bright but falling behind, who has paid for tuition that did not help and will pay for teaching that does.

What leaves today

Children with learning difficulties are written off as slow and leave school without the qualifications they could have earned.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. OneThe Letter That Says Yes and Means No
  177,588 qualified, 45,000 placed

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