Media

Statistics

  • American schools are failing 1 in 4 children

  • Illiteracy costs employers millions

  • Illiteracy fuels crime, racism, ill-health, truancy unemployment and poverty

  • 85% of young offenders are illiterate, 70% reoffend but only 16% if they are taught to read

  • 40% of prisoners were excluded from school

Gert in the Media

  • Creator of the Gertrude Garrow Reading System (AZRS)

  • Two-time #1Internation Bestselling Author

  • Award-winning poet and playwright

  • Director of her Montessori School for 10 years

  • Lecturer at Brunel University, UK on Multi-media

  • Presenter and scriptwriter for children’s educational programs on Irish National TV and Radio

  • International teacher-trainer and tutor for children of Saudi Arabian royal family children, British peers and Pakistani government ministers

“I can teach you to read in hours, not years.”

Press coverage slide show (no audio)

Media Experience

  • Irish National Television (RTE) presenter and scriptwriter

  • US Neil Haley’s Education Show

  • US WHCR FM Rick Young

  • US WVTLM FM Bob Cudmore Morning Show

  • BBC Radio 4, BBC Berkshire, BBC Radio Wales

  • Times, TES, Daily Mail, Evening Standard

  • Child Education, Richmond Twickenham Times, Richmond Guardian

  • Irish Times, Evening Herald, Evening Press, Today

  • Southside, The Connaght Tribune, PSA News

  • Pakistan Press, Dawn Lahore, The Nation