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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does anything in education change? Test scores are less than perfect. Someone in charge (who hasn't been in a classroom in years if ever) comes up with some program/methodology to try to fix it. Finds research to back up their desires. Forces everyone in their domain to implement this new change. 5 years later, test scores still aren't perfect, new person is in charge, so new program comes in. I've taught for 10 years and this is my 3rd set of standards and curriculum.[/quote] This. Teacher here and this is it. Test scores don't improve fast enough so districts jump ship and buy the "next best thing" in order to show improvement. It doesn't necessarily mean it will. That's why people send their kids to Catholic schools. They stick with what works. My son's Catholic school phonics looks similar to what I did in public school in MD in the early 80s. If it ain't broke....[/quote] Plus the old school phonics programs are less expensive. The tiny budgets are likely what saved Catholic schools from much of the whole language disaster. But now there are generations of teachers coming out of schools who have never learned how to teach reading in a systemic way. The education professors have no incentive to improve their practices as many of them are selling/ advising on whole-language or balanced literacy textbooks themselves.[/quote]
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