DC is offering structured literacy training to 80 teachers per year, w/ $1200 stipends.
“Great start, but it falls significantly short of what states like MS & TN have done to address a known problem w/ a known solution.” 👏 @OSSEDC member @AllisterSBOE
I’m a huge proponent of the “science of reading,” and the only curricula I recommend have kids working with authentic, whole texts at their grade level starting in K.
And they’re designed to nurture reading comprehension.
“@daniela127 told me she’s frustrated that what she feels to be her narrowly focused message—that NY schoolchildren deserve more carefully crafted policies than what they’ve been given—has been lumped in with a larger right-wing, anti-govt sentiment.”
I appreciate @JohnGHendy’s piece on @NYCHealthCommr & @daniela127. But it’s trying to paint them both as reasonable voices amidst chaos, and skirts the essential Q:
👉 Is it reasonable to be the only city in US masking developing children?
Never forget that this issue was actively downplayed by COVID Zero Twitter and even K-12 journalists.
The loudest voice, a “suicidologist,” actually said that it was no big deal if the suicides were unsuccessful. And he has viciously attacked docs who tried to raise awareness.
How many people stayed on the sidelines about what was happening to US children because of COVID Twitter voices who’d attack if you expressed concern about anything other than COVID cases?
The toxic US discourse around COVID and kids is well-reflected here by @JenniferSey.