Hmmm. A suggestion
that school improvement depends on expanding charters and vouchers, and
changing the teacher evaluation system.
Not much new here.
What would fundamentally change schools is a change in how
literacy is viewed. Now the entrenched
belief, in all schools whether they are charters or public schools or private
schools, is that literacy skills need to be directly taught by making all
students read the books that are currently in vogue as being worthwhile.
This isn’t working.
Over the last forty years, SAT verbal scores have slipped, while math
scores have gone up a little. Kids are
just as smart, but they aren’t reading as well.
There is a mountain of research showing that only avid
readers are sophisticated, advanced readers.
To raise reading scores we need to nurture avid-reading behavior in
students.
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