New York City public schools will soon be required to implement a new phonics-based curriculum for teaching literacy.
And according to Schools Chancellor David Banks, they’re doing it for one reason.He says 51% of elementary school children are not reading proficiently. But the statistics, he says, are even starker when broken up by ethnicity.
30% of Asian students and 33% of White students are not reading proficiently. Those numbers jump to 63% and 64% when you look at Latino and Black students, respectively.It’s a historic announcement because – for the past 20 years—the city has relied on a method of teaching literacy known as balanced literacy, which puts an emphasis on memorization of words associated with pictures.
"In the end, it was every school was on their own," Banks said, referring to the current method. "That is no way to run a school system." The new mandatory curriculum will be phonics-based, which teaches reading and writing based on the sounds letters make.In a statement, the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators – the union representing school supervisors and administrators – says they "don’t agree that mandating a single curriculum across a given school district" is how to reach their objective.
They're also asking for an exemption for the schools where previous teaching methods were already working.Mayor Eric Adams shaking hands with student. that I have read and agree
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