Left-wing dogma is destroying the literary skills of an entire generation. Such is the depressing conclusion of a recent report into ‘teaching reading’ by the Centre for Independent Studies in its in-house magazine Policy, which spells out how our children are being badly let down by unions and bureaucrats.

We learn that the ‘English Teachers Association of NSW advises that when children come across an unknown word, they should be encouraged to “predict” or guess it, even though it has long been known that predicting words… has a low probability of accuracy.