Key New NEPC FYI Print Takeaway: It’s time for the media and political distortions to end, and for the literacy community and policymakers to fully support the literacy needs of all children.
BOULDER, COLO. (PRWEB) MARCH 19, 2020
The National Education Policy Center and the Education Deans for Justice and Equity (EDJE) today jointly released a Policy Statement on the “Science of Reading.”
For the past few years, a wave of media has reignited the unproductive Reading Wars, which frame early-literacy teaching as a battle between opposing camps. This coverage speaks of an established “science of reading” as the appropriate focus of teacher education programs and as the necessary approach for early-reading instruction. Unfortunately, this media coverage has distorted the research evidence on the teaching of reading, with the result that policymakers are now promoting and implementing policy based on misinformation.
The truth is that there is no settled science of reading. The research on reading and teaching reading is abundant, but it is diverse and always in a state of change. Accordingly, the joint statement highlights the
* Work from Home and START YOUR OWN blog site, business or personal website, or e-commerce store at
www.mochahost.comLinkback:
https://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?topic=99161.0
