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[quote=Anonymous]The shift towards accountability in the last twenty years has backfired. What matters now to school systems is standardized test scores, so that’s what teaching is geared towards improving. Using various online programs seems like an easy solution to improving test scores, and school systems continue to pour money into them despite the dropping reading scores. Anecdotally I think kids read much less at home now and they definitely read less at school (rather than reading when they aren’t in a reading group with the teacher, now they are on online programs). And kids are coming into school with fewer and fewer pre literacy skills. The Sold a Story Calkins stuff doesn’t help, but it’s certainly not the entire problem. Parents, teachers, and school systems need to agree this model is failing. The instruction piece is improving, now we need to ensure kids spend less time on devices and more time reading.[/quote]
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