I had a great conversation today with a school psychologist. She went there. The elephant 🐘 in the room” on reading instruction: teachers screaming how they struggle. She asked, “Why can’t teachers teach children how to decode before recommending them for special education?” 🛑

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Lack of teacher knowledge and support for teaching kids to read fails the nation

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"The science of reading isn’t a quickly mastered program or off-the-shelf curriculum. It isn’t a fad or some phonics program. It’s a term referring to vast amounts of scientific research that span several disciplines." ednc.org/teachers-readi…

My simple dream for America: it is harder to buy a gun than it is to vote.

CDE webinar series will focus on dyslexia and literacy edsource.org/?page_id=677748 via EdSource

For Black History month, I'm posting Maya Angelou's words on illiteracy, then sitting back and thinking about that last sentence... The Black Caucus California Teachers Association Linda Darling-Hammond The Right to Read NAACP NEA NEA Black Caucus AFT CFT National Action Network

“I became intrigued by the failures in reading after listening to a riveting six-part podcast, ‘Sold a Story,’ that argues passionately that the education establishment ignored empirical evidence and unintentionally harmed children.” nytimes.com/2023/02/11/opi…

“Reading may be the most important skill we can give children,” writes Nicholas Kristof. Yet “eighth graders today are actually a hair worse at reading than their counterparts were in 1998.” nyti.ms/3YMTxdL

You can watch The Right to Read film. Beginning March 2, it will be free online for a week if you sign up. therighttoreadfilm.org/watch-the-film

THREAD: WATCH THE RIGHT TO READ ON NATIONAL READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY. In celebration of National Reading Month, The Right to Read will be available to all audiences for free online for one week.

Listen to the Angela Davis show this morning. I'll be on to talk about response to Sold a Story. mprnews.org/shows/angela-d…

In ⁦The New York Times⁩ ⁦New York Times Opinion⁩ today. ⁦Mark Seidenberg⁩ ⁦Seidenberg Reading⁩ ⁦Maryanne Wolf⁩ ⁦Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social⁩

There’s a new video - for kids - on learning to read and why it’s hard for many people. It’s from ⁦Brains On! Universe⁩. Good summer watching! Share with the children in your life. youtube.com/watch?v=WGZJ7E…