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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you talking about in general or just your specific expensive independent school?

Virginia passed a law I think 2 years ago (might have been 3) requiring districts to switch to at least more science-of-reading curricula. It was a broadly popular, cross-political-party bill and basically all northern VA districts have made a switch.

That said, spelling and grammar have not yet been made part of the big "science of reading" push - knowledge for reading comprehension is getting there but even that isn't that great. Broader writing instruction that is direct and explicit hasn't either.

I would love for more generally cognitive science to actually inform how teachers are taught to teach. Based on what I understand, school would probably start looking a lot more like we remember (the "sage on the stage" and lots of practice) and less like it does today.

https://marylandmatters.org/2025/01/02/what-happens-when-a-school-district-commits-to-the-science-of-learning/ [/quote]

I am talking about public school in upper middle to wealthy areas. Why is our school sticking to these methods of teaching reading and writing? I didn’t know enough to actually call different schools to ask about specific curriculum (I did check out school websites and it looked fine. I talked to parents, older people, realtors, neighbors. All raved.). Once we got kindergarten with my oldest, we found out the kids were being taught to memorize a handful of words every week and guess the rest. It doesn’t seem to be teacher specific, either, it is the curriculum![/quote]

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