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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So why aren’t schools just switching to Science of Reading and calling it a day? [/quote]

We have at least one generation of teachers who were taught by their Education School that LC / BL / WL were the best way to teach reading.  Nearly all the (non-Catholic) Education Schools taught the teachers how to teach 3-cueing and other now widely discredited methods.

So a LOT of teacher re-training will be needed for K-3 faculty and their assistants.  This likely will be problematic for good quality implementation of SoR, because even if a school (or school system like MCPS or APS) selects a good SoR curriculum, many of the teachers will still need to learn how to teach kids using SoR methods - and to stop teaching things like 3-cueing.

This likely will take years to happen, best case.  And NY news media report that LC has formed a company to keep pushing her stuff, and keep making money for herself, even though even Columbia U. now has publicly admitted that both LC Readers Workshop and LC Writers Workshop curricula does not work.

It makes me very sad.[/quote]

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