Literacy at NYC schools remains low amid Mayor Adams’ focus on reading, internal data shows
Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks have made improving literacy among New York City public school students a top education priority.instruction and implementing new curricula in half of all elementary schools last September, the city education department has declined to release data from seasonal assessments, called “screeners,” saying it would be premature.
“To reset New York City's reading and literacy foundation as an entire system is probably one of the biggest undertakings the system has ever had," Banks said on Thursday. "And it does not happen easily.” At the elementary schools that adopted new literacy curricula this year, proficiency declined from 36.4% in the fall to 33.6% in the winter.
School officials said they are still figuring out how to tally results from so many different screeners produced by different companies, which they said creates “noise” in the data when aggregated. They emphasized that new reading materials have been used in roughly half of the city’s elementary schools for just six months.Rux and other senior education officials said individual superintendents can pick from a variety of screener tests to assess students’ literacy rates within their district.
Still, some experts said the data underscores the urgency of the literacy reform effort, which is entering a new phase following a bureaucratic shakeup at the education department headquarters.through her teaching and learning division. He said Quintana will leave at the end of the school year and her department will be folded into Rux’s portfolio.
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