‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’
‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’ John Corcoran grew up in New Mexico in the US during the 1940s and 50s. One of six siblings, he graduated from high school, went on to university, and became a teacher in the 1960s - a job he held for 17 years. But, as he explains here, he hid an extraordinary secret.literacyreadingteachingLINK