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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're just coming off a Pandemic - how is anyone surprised by this data?  MCPS just began using Really Great Reading this year as the core curriculum for foundational skills in grades K - 2.  Up until this point, the emphasis in MCPS (and most of the US) was around teaching guided reading and balanced literacy to elementary students. This whole language approach to reading instruction was never supported by science; yet school districts across the country jumped on board twenty years ago.  I know that's how I learned to teach reading when I was in college to become a teacher back in the early 2000's. 
Combine this with increased levels of poverty and trauma in our schools and it's going to take years to right this ship.[/quote]

The majority of kids were in school during the entire pandemic in person and they have all been in school a full year+. So, enough blaming the pandemic already.  The true measure would be to look at the virtual school vs. in person and compare.[/quote]

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