Tisha Rajendra

Tisha Rajendra is a professor, mom, PhD; ethicist; linguist; literacy advocate and tutor.

Posts By Tisha Rajendra

Literacy

I Used To Rage At Teachers, But Now I’ve Found My Target

I used to harbor a lot of rage toward my son’s kindergarten teacher. When I first realized that my son, then a first-grader doing school remotely from our living room couch, couldn’t read even the...

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Literacy

Reading Instruction Is Not a Religion

Episode III of Emily Hanford’s latest podcast, Sold a Story, describes how New Zealander Marie Clay’s debunked theory of how children learn to read took hold in the United States. Two education...

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