It’s time for everyone to come to the negotiating table in good faith, with policies that put kids’ best interests front and center.
Second grade teacher Susan Carver reads to her students on the first day of class at Roosevelt Elementary School in Anaheim, CA on Thursday, August 10, 2023. How can teachers teach kids to read if teachers don’t have the training they need to teach reading the right way?
Until recently, California seemed ready to join this national movement toward high-quality literacy instruction. That’s because the California Teachers Association—among the most powerful special interest groups in the state—claimed it might give teachers less say over reading curricula. Decades ago, most of us learned to read using that proven approach—remember the old “Hooked on phonics worked for me” catchphrase? But many others were taught using harmful techniques such as three-cueing, which encourages kids to use pictures to guess at words instead of sounding them out.
That means more than two-thirds of the state’s fourth graders are reading at a level of basic or below. In 2022, California’s average fourth grade reading score hit its lowest point in seven years.
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