Time to Get Health Literacy off Life Support
Carol Hofer, NBCTAugust 18, 2020
It’s hard to compete with an octopus – no, not at arm wrestling – but at capturing and sustaining a young reader’s attention. Three hearts – in one body! Blue blood — the real, not fake princess, stuff! But just as COVID-19 changed how we teach, it’s time to change what we teach. As much as I love books about animals, we need to turn inward and learn more about us humans. Unlike cars, people don’t come with owner’s manuals, and the pandemic blew open the hood to expose a U.S. population that is health illiterate. The National Assessment of…