All skills that children can receive in school, no one is more than reading in importance.
The ability to read and understand what is read, all others are the key to learning, either formal or individual, and students in California schools are not doing well.
The results of the state’s latest academic achievement tests released last October showed that the English language skills met less than half the standards and one third met them in mathematics.
The overall score of California in the national evaluation of educational progression, the federal government’s program to measure educational achievement is equally tarnished, at seventh place from below.
One reason is that the state gets so bad that for decades, California adopted trendy principles of teaching them to read, such as “whole language”, while increasing strong evidence that nadvidya, will produce better results, using a more traditional method.
The struggle, “reading warners” was dubbed, which was not limited to California, but the state was one of the major battlefields given its size.
Ultimately, Nadvidya-based instructions, reproduce as “science of reading”, won at least on paper. But the state is not urging its adoption, and many local school systems have continued to use less effective teaching methods.
Last month, the National Council on Teacher Quality released a report as to how the state reading is implemented and California achieved only an average score, once again other states, such as Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana and Alabama, will make connections as a regressive.
California won pladits in some fields, such as setting the standards of reading in teacher training and with skills in its licensing process, but fell back into the need of ongoing literacy training and to ensure that teacher preparation programs are being stressed that the science of reading is being emphasized.
According to the report, “In California, only 58% of students in fourth grade can read at one basic level.” This number falls rapidly for students historically undercracied.
“Students who are not studying at grade level until reaching fourth grade are four times more likely to get out of high school, which leads to additional challenges for them as adults: low lifetime earnings, high rates of unemployment, and high probability of entering criminal justice system.
“These dangerous figures can be attributed to inequalities in access to large extent effective reading instructions, a problem that can solve strong state policy and bold state leaders.”
The bright side of the picture is that within a few months, California will require teacher preparation programs to emphasize the science of reading with eyesight on meeting the new literacy standards of the state.
The newly introduced law will make the science of reading compulsory. In the absence of such a mandate, it may take years for full implementation, if ever, because many liberal schools continue to oppose the district, believe that Nadvidya is incompatible with educational equity.
California has a strange policy on what happens in local school systems. This closely monitors their finance and will essentially confiscate the districts that are in danger of bankruptcy, but take more hand to the educational results.
To allow local school systems to decide, it is very important to read whether and when they will adopt the science of reading. As the teacher reports a report on quality, a child who cannot read is likely to fall behind for the rest of his life.
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