New York Magazine | Advocates for Children of New York is a nonprofit that, among its other services, provides pro-bono legal representation in due-process cases to working-class children. Randi Levine, its policy director, told me that in her experience, the Department of Education has at times discouraged its public-school teachers from using the term “dyslexia” with parents. “We hear stories of families who are requesting help, who are being told, ‘Give it more time, give it more time,’” she says. Within the special-education world, this tendency is known as “wait to fail” and its tentacles can be far reaching.