The Classical Teacher readership is approximately 100,000 readers. In one edition, my favorite article was one of the shortest, “Why Johnny Can’t Add.” Martin Cothran begins with this: “My father was an aerospace engineer.” in his brief article, Martin makes a compelling case for everything that so-called progressive educators despise, especially the pedagogical precept of beginning at the beginning.

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