There are many problems with the US education system, but it does a really good job teaching kids to read; and for the few kids who fail to learn to read, it&#x27;s usually because of an unstable (or abusive) home, or because the kids don&#x27;t speak English, not because of &quot;failure to fully understand phonemes.&quot;<p>The main point of the article is a proposal of a new way to evaluate teachers. It says, &quot;let’s agree that the way to evaluate teacher training is to test teachers (it’s tempting to use student outcomes instead).&quot;<p>To me that seems like a reasonable part of a good method of evaluation.